Sentence examples for pressed to admit from inspiring English sources
(Pressed to admit his failings, Mr Brown sometimes sounds like a faux-modest candidate in a job interview, who claims his main fault is working too hard).
On cross-examination, he was pressed to admit that rows of large plastic evidence bags stood open and unguarded on a park lawn.
The fear manifests itself in elaborate gates and locks, in the growing number of key rings, in the formation of tenants squads to patrol corridors, in shop buzers pressed to admit only recognizable customers.
He is not, so far as I am aware, much read in Britain, although Philip Larkin used to drop his name whenever he, Larkin, was pressed to admit that, yes, from time to time he had been forced to read the odd transatlantic book of verse.
In a brief cross-examination before the fourth day of trial ended in federal court in Manhattan, Mr. Davidge was pressed to admit that when questioned privately by Christie's lawyers as the investigation was getting underway several years ago he had withheld from them what he was now telling the jury.
Pressed to admit that Bear Stearns's over-leveraged, subprime-fueled nature was responsible for the failed investment bank's eventual demise, three top former executives on Wednesday chose to instead blame market "rumors".
But I think the court would be hard-pressed to admit him".
Perry said: "The nicely educated, perfectly mannered gentlemen of our financial system were hard-pressed to admit that masculinity even existed, let alone had any bearing on the shape of our noble bankers' behaviour".
Many distillers are hard-pressed to admit that they even market a white rum.
And even if you didn't love Blade Runner 2049, you'd be hard-pressed to admit that it isn't one of the best-looking pictures of the year.
However, many would be hard-pressed to admit or agree that despite these urgent issues, whether in the Middle East or the Korean Peninsula, no country in the world has more of an impact on the day-to-day prosperity, wellbeing and security of the U.S. and of Americans than Mexico.
