Sentence examples for pressed the question from inspiring English sources

Senator Mike Crapo, Republican of Idaho, repeatedly pressed the question about bankruptcy as an option during Thursday's hearing.

When Mr. King pressed the question, Mr. Giuliani replied, "I don't know the right answer to that at this point".

"I don't want to hear your point," Mr. Parks boomed when a reporter pressed the question of whether he might show concern for the victims individually.

Another reporter, Karen DeWitt, the Capitol bureau chief for New York State Public Radio, pressed the question, asking the governor whether the legislative session – due to end in late June – might be effectively over now.

When I pressed the question, his face flushed and he said that the decision had not been his: it had been made by the chief prosecutor for anti-corruption.

But Mr. Barr pressed the question after Peter P. Swire, a privacy official at the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, testified that the proposed legislation lacked any privacy safeguards, "either to prevent harm to individuals or to stop a power grab by an unaccountable agency".

Biju's forerunners like to press the question of "what he is doing and why.

(They always insisted their relationship was platonic; the play doesn't press the question, but its characters include male romantic interests).

Taxpayers should press the question of what all this has to do with Mr. Murtha (who has also used his gavel to create a luxury supermart of defense contractors in his Pennsylvania district).

His appeal to externalist epistemology supplies something needed for a philosophical defence of faith understood in this way, although arguably not all that is required, if it is fair to press the question of entitlement that appears to remain unanswered.

Since he was banned from the park for life, it doesn't seem prudent for either of us to press the question.