Sentence examples for pressed beyond from inspiring English sources

There are also people like Mr. Lowery, who says he was just pressed beyond endurance by persistent interrogators.

Portuguese subjects also pressed beyond the Strait of Malacca to the East Indies, Siam (now Thailand), and Canton in Ming-dynasty China.

Pressed beyond it, both of them talked about the energy, toughness and talents of Central Americans, past and present, said there was a lot to think about, whatever, and will be going back again, obviously.

But the narrative declines to press beyond such euphemistic glosses, never homes in on the ways this particular history lives in the minds and bodies of these people.

And as Washington prepares to remember Sept. 11, Congress should press beyond White House resistance for the fullest inquiry into the terrorist plot's causes and money trail.

As general director of the Houston Grand Opera for the past three decades, Mr. Gockley has made it his business to press beyond the status quo.

Sport and equity can rhyme, but it takes honesty, vigilance, and a willingness to press beyond standard-issue five-ring rhetoric.

Someone who aspires to be a great senator must press beyond the question whether a specific gift, contribution or political intervention is strictly legal.

"Perhaps it is not a question of whether the migrants brought good or ill to the cities they fled to or were pushed or pulled to their destinations," she writes, "but a question of how they summoned the courage to leave in the first place or how they found the will to press beyond the forces against them and the faith in a country that had rejected them for so long".

If wages gathered steam, Bernanke would press beyond one or two more bumps in Fed funds.

It helped define how Latinos are seen.... My goal was to press beyond that old fashion view of literature as just short stories and novels.