Sentence examples for press to act from inspiring English sources

Central authorities also sometimes call on the press to act as a watchdog against corruption, but then react harshly when that call is answered.Reporters are pushing the boundaries every day.

Matty Roth, a young, politically naïve reporter who finds himself stranded in the middle of the DMZ, tries to figure out how the city is surviving under fire, not to mention how he's going to survive, given that every heavily armed faction wants the press to act as its propaganda organ.

It's time for the press to act like the Fourth Estate -- to warn and protect its public.

But Lormel, who retired from the F.B.I. in 2003, says he would have been "hard pressed" to act on some of the material that Treasury officials used.

The administration ultimately attracted the support it needed to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from moderate Democrats who felt pressed to act before the recess.

Someone is in autonomy favouring conditions when she is not deceived, threatened, coerced, or pressed to act in one way rather than another (Russell 2010).

My bill requires the press council to act independently and in the public interest in promoting and protecting freedom of expression and of the press, and encouraging and maintaining high professional standards and good practices.

These images inspired events, like Woodstock or the Chicago demonstrations, that were not only recorded and mythified but often designed -- whether by spontaneous improvisation or by deliberate playing to the press -- to act the images out.

"I need you guys involved, I need you active," he said, to press lawmakers to act.

The problem is that solutions like these often involve the need to press government to act.

Even so, America must hold its nose and engage with Pakistan and press it to act against the Taliban.