Sentence examples for pressed successfully from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dumitrescu pressed, successfully, for far wider access.

After years of repression, regions pressed successfully for as much freedom as possible.

President Obama strongly supports an extension, but Republicans have typically balked, and have pressed successfully for less generous benefits.

Mr. Leonhardt said that he doubted he could have pressed successfully for an interview with a national security focus.

Nor, they say, has it been recognized that he has pressed successfully for diplomacy in dealing with the nuclear threats posed by Iran and North Korea.

It ended only when federal prosecutors charged some Daley aides, including Robert A. Sorich, his former patronage chief, with corrupting the hiring process in one of many honest-services cases that federal prosecutors here have pressed successfully.

Linois continued his raiding, achieving some success against individual sailing ships, but failing to press successfully his numerical superiority against British naval forces; most notably at the Battle of Vizagapatam on 15 September 1804 and the Action of 6 August 1805.

While any number of enduring acts have lost the odd musician, those that press ahead successfully without the lead vocalists are arguably rarer.

Some books, however, can't be successfully pressed.

For the next 115 games, no team successfully pressed Plymouth.

At Millburn High School in New Jersey, students successfully pressed to drop rankings in the late 1990's.