Sentence examples for pressed on both from inspiring English sources
The Karpis project "got me into the period," Mr. Mann said, "trying to understand the history, imagining the tough, tough existence of these guys being pressed on both sides by twin evolutionary forces — on the one hand, J. Edgar Hoover inventing the F.B.I., and on the other, organized crime evolving rapidly into a kind of corporate capitalism" that had no room for independent criminals either.
Pressed on both sides was a sweaty-looking Clegg.
A tough agenda was being pressed on both sides.
Pressed on both flanks, Merkel is also under attack from fellow EU members and those she is trying to help.
She shared her concerns about her kids and about her mother: that was her definition of middle age, being pressed on both sides.
In 1934, shortly after the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's death, the reformist politician Lungshar was punished by an ancient Tibetan method of blinding: the knucklebones of a yak were pressed on both of his temples to make his eyeballs pop out.
He stressed that China needed to press on with both political and economic reforms.
The time is right to press on both mechanisms, but neither will happen unless green activists demand robust federal action.
Never press on both carotid arteries at the same time.[47].[47]
Private equity fought back with a full-court press on both the public relations and lobbying fronts.
