Sentence examples for pressed to raise from inspiring English sources

Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.

Probably not now, when the Republicans are pressed to raise tax rates – this goes too deeply against what has become an ideology over the last 30 years.

Still, concern among some economists is mounting that Bank of England policy makers might feel pressed to raise interest rates because of inflation, even if the economy has not recovered fully.

Without the ability to take a closer look at Men's Wearhouse's financials, Mr. Wildrick said in an interview, Jos. A. Bank would be hard pressed to raise what he described as an already richly valued offer.

And the European Central Bank retains several crucial tools to backstop vulnerable banks, including the ability to buy more of their bonds and even, if pressed, to raise interest rates to attract capital from elsewhere.

The declining prices of media industry stocks and bonds created a surreal feeling of relative poverty among the assembled moguls, leaving their companies hard pressed to raise cash or make acquisitions, and their personal portfolios a little lighter as well.

And working people and their allies will continue to press to raise the minimum wage statewide in Alabama, because poverty-level wages just serve to reinforce poverty - and because raising the minimum wage, in Alabama and across the country, is the right thing to do.

Attached to his key ring is an infrared device that he presses to raise a clattering steel shutter.

The league is engaged in a full-court press to raise the profile of the next wave of stars in a post-Jeter world.

In a new ad campaign, M.L.B is engaged in a full-court press to raise the profile of the next wave of celebrities in a post-Jeter….

But it took a local newspaper, The Long Island Press, to raise a discomfiting fact about the attack that other news outlets had overlooked.