Sentence examples for pressed on him from inspiring English sources

The way the world pressed on him, you wouldn't have known he was a six-footer.

And Merrill, who would read immediately whatever I pressed on him, loved it, too.

To this end, Congress and the voters might compel him to adopt the course secretly being pressed on him by his own Joint Chiefs of Staff.

This is, in fact, precisely how Mr Bush has addressed the charge, pressed on him last week by a brave University of Nevada student, that "Your brother created ISIS".

I don't know whether he chose these items himself or whether they were pressed on him by parents who feared that his life in space would be lacking in human moments.

The prognosis, which he didn't want to know, but which was pressed on him by an over-eager oncologist, was that he had a year to live - or nine months by the time he started to write about it.

His backbone stiffened, however, when an admirer sought to press on him a Guarnerius valued at $33,000; this he firmly refused, saying that he was not enough of a musician to do justice to the instrument.

When he returned home the weight of loss, his ever growing appetite for weed, and unchecked bipolar disorder began to press on him.

When pressed on rumours linking him with a move elsewhere, the former Espanyol manager did little to ease fans' fears.

The prosecutors pressed on, insisting on trying him under the Espionage Act and for "aiding the enemy".

Even after the course was closed, thus technically disqualifying him, he pressed on.