Sentence examples for pressed to agree from inspiring English sources

After his speech Miliband was pressed to agree that as it was "40 years" since the British people had been asked about EU membership, it was surely time to ask them again.

"You know I'm hard pressed to agree with what a Republican says," said Alice Huffman, the president of the California N.A.A.C.P. "But it's plain wrong to say just because he's a Republican, he's doing something bad.

Yet despite the long shadow Lombardi still casts over the game 36 years after his death he coached the Green Bay Packers to five titles in the 1960s current National Football League coaches would be hard pressed to agree.

We, along with the FT and the Independent, would prefer our colleagues in the press to agree to a more robustly independent regulator.

“The Senate will be susceptible to regional concerns because less populated regions have a bigger say, and the Midwest and Southeast will be hard-pressed to agree.”.

"Yes, ma'am," Mr. Bush said when pressed, seeming to agree but not providing any specifics.

Several Republicans seized on her answer and then pressed her to agree to strip the agency of its power to ban such practices if she did not see any immediate need to use them.

It has since supported tightening United Nations sanctions, cracked down on North Korean banking activity and pressed Pyongyang to agree to return to disarmament talks when its envoy visited Beijing last month.

South Korea's minister of unification, Park Jae Kyu, pressed North Korea to agree to Seoul's proposal to open a military hot line in an effort to prevent armed clashes.

The notion that the United States is reserving the right to rapidly increase its nuclear forces has been an important concern for Moscow, which has pressed Washington to agree to binding limits and even destroy some of its warheads.

pressed ministers to agree that Greece's debt should be cut by about 20 percent of G.D.P. through methods that include the debt buyback program at discounted prices, lowering interest rates, lengthening the deadlines for debt repayments, and returning profits to Greece made on bonds bought by the European Central Bank.