Sentence examples for pressed for assistance from inspiring English sources

One said the anxious British attitude "would often be humorous if it were not so corrosive" and that it was tempting to take advantage of this neurosis to "make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance".

"Though tempting to argue that keeping HMG off balance about its current standing with us might make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance, in the long run it is not in US interests to have the UK public concluding the relationship is weakening, on either side.

15. (C) Qureshi likely will repeat Zardari's pleas for USG intervention with Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Gulf states to deliver oil at concessional prices; to date, our efforts have been rebuffed but the upcoming Donors' Conference would provide another avenue to press for assistance.

During de Hoop Scheffer's tenure as secretary-general, he pressed for more assistance from NATO's European leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the alliance assumed the lead security role in Afghanistan in October 2006.

The UK and Denmark have pressed for EU financial assistance to independent Russian-language channels.

State Senator Robert Littell, a Republican from rural Sussex County who will be leaving after the current session, showed an uncharacteristic interest in urban affairs this past month as he pressed for a $180 million economic assistance package for Camden, an overwhelmingly Democratic community on the other end of the state.

With wildfires raging in California, he used the visit to press for additional disaster assistance to their victims, along with other federal spending on his state.

According to a report from Paris in the Italian daily La Repubblica, the two countries would also press for an increase in EU assistance to those countries that have to cope with immigrant influxes – a key Italian demand.

Mohseni wants the U.S. to press for greater reforms by "placing more conditions on its assistance".

The Minneapolis Board of Trade and other civic leaders pressed the Minnesota Legislature for assistance.

The Iraqi opponents of Mr. Hussein, including exiles and dissidents from inside Iraq, spent the week meeting with senior administration officials at the State Department and the Pentagon to press them for more assistance, including military training for 140 Iraqis and military equipment like communications gear that, they argued, could be used to foment opposition to Mr. Hussein.