Sentence examples for pressed to ask from inspiring English sources

Too many people are feeling pressed to ask their doctors to prescribe drugs they may not need.

With the Greek economy in its fifth year of recession and with unemployment more than 20 percent, even the strongest of governments would be hard pressed to ask such an additional sacrifice from its citizens — to say nothing of the new government that, whatever the election results, is likely to be one of the most fractious in recent history.

One is, indeed, pressed to ask whether anyone seriously disagrees with Moynihan about the primacy of family.

One is hard pressed to ask, what is the problem in calling the Occupied Palestinian Territories just that, territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war?

And then, in this room, surrounded by influencers asking Dolph Lundgren what workouts he likes to do, I'm suddenly not too pressed to ask my question—"THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT ROCKY MOVIES WITH IV AS THE BEST AND V AS THE WORST, WHERE DO THE OTHER SIX ROCKY MOVIES INCLUDING CREED II, IN YOUR OPINION RANK?"—because it sort of doesn't matter.

Last year I wrote a column urging my colleagues in the press to ask tougher questions about the religious views of candidates for public office.

Three games was all it took for the press to ask Coach Coughlin if he wasn't, perhaps, a fool for bringing in a rookie quarterback.

"He has not gone out on a full-court press to ask everybody he knows to write a letter or send a telegram," Yale said.

Going forward, a good question for the public and for the press to ask the mayor about future announcements may be: have I seen this before?

But he was hard-pressed to ask more detailed questions on the subject.

But one would be hard-pressed to ask for a more dramatic contest than Saturday's roller-coaster ride.