Sentence examples for pressed to prove from inspiring English sources

Mallarme wrote gorgeously inventive (and impossible to translate) poems, and no one could deny his influence, but you would be hard pressed to prove that he altered the political discourse directly.

As it struggles to complete its odyssey of pre-Olympics primping, this scraggly city finds itself pressed to prove more than its ability to pave roads, plant trees and prettify monuments.

Even the most ardent defenders of this year's title-holder, Graz in Austria, would be hard pressed to prove that it had made an indelible mark on the continent's cultural consciousness.But for Liverpool, notorious for industrial and political militancy in the past 30 years, and scarred by the economic decline they caused, the award marks a huge symbolic break with the past.

Even then, federal prosecutors decided they would be hard pressed to prove the case they tried to build from the allegations of a wealthy political donor who said he had given Mr. Torricelli thousands of dollars in cash and gifts in return for help with international business deals.

There is the sense of a long, ghostly procession behind Hurston: what might have existed if only more of the words and stories had been written down decades earlier, if only Phillis Wheatley had not tried to write like Alexander Pope, if only literate slaves and their generations of children had not felt pressed to prove their claim to the sworn civilities.

Most importantly, the clash presented an opportunity to arrest a run of indifferent form against quality opposition; on the flip side, lose at Patersons against a team they've had the wood over recently, and four losses from the past five would've had the Dockers out of the eight and hard pressed to prove that last year's grand final showing was little more than a fluke.

"It's up to the press to prove it will go along with it.

"They know that the only way to move the administration to the center is through a full-court press to prove and impress the Bush administration that it can cooperate with China".

It was about that time that the Beach Boys, desperate for a hit, announced that their errant mastermind was miraculously cured and sent him out to meet the press to prove it.

Highfield laid down his strategic vision for Johnston Press to prove that local media is not dead in an internal video message to staff, the transcript of which has been seen by MediaGuardian.

She was a pariah then, remains an outsider now, and has released a book, "Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick" (The Free Press), to prove her point.