Sentence examples for pressed to provide from inspiring English sources

Chad is a poor country and is hard pressed to provide basic services.

Risks Mr. Romney will no doubt be pressed to provide more details about his foreign policy positions during the trip.

In the past government would have been pressed to provide these services; now it simply supplies the data.

That means they could not be pressed to provide operational or intelligence details that might prevent future attacks.

He and his wife seem genuinely shocked that they are being pressed to provide paperwork about the details of their financial lives.

The dishes have fanciful names like Pear Up, Lemon Lightning and Coffee Bliss that reveal almost nothing, and the waiters are hard pressed to provide further explanantion.

(I ran images of two tracking wheels, distributed to press to provide technical context for the missions, on this blog in May). Its pages include many reproductions of materials from press kits, television broadcasts, and advertisements.

It is the first piece I have discovered in the UK press to provide a realistic synopsis of the background to current events.

Christening the property Leeuwin Estate, he spent lavishly, almost recklessly, installing not one but two Willmes presses, to provide ample capacity in case of an emergency.

From the town hall, to the picket line to the Glastonbury Festival, Tony Benn rose above the vilification of the right wing press to provide real leadership through some of our toughest battles.

The revelation in the late 60's that the agency was secretly financing seemingly independent intellectuals and organizations caused a sensation, but it awaited Frances Stoner Saunders, in "The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (New Press), to provide a detailed picture of who did what and how it was done.