Sentence examples for pressed to speak from inspiring English sources

During a 90-minute interview last week, her first lengthy one since switching races on Dec. 21, Ms. Pirro had to be pressed to speak in depth about the Senate race, her husband's problems, and criticism of her judgment.

Other choice guests joined the captain's table, and once a female, Mistress Posey Brandon, a lady of considerable stature, quite overtopping the gentlemen at the table, but sitting silent for the most part unless pressed to speak.

The players said they followed the labor negotiations, though most of them were hard pressed to speak about the specifics of the new 10-year agreement, which includes expanded benefits for retired players, stricter rules for signing rookies and a rebalanced revenue-sharing plan.

Gunther shares a workstation with Fritzy, a mousy little woman who blushes when pressed to speak English but doesn't bat an eyelash when a shipment of love beads comes rolling down the assembly line.

There's no art press to speak of, no criticism of any weight.

Uzbekistan recently lifted official censorship, but there is still no independent or opposition press to speak of.

If the right of the press to speak freely ends, so will every person's right to speak, for freedom of the press is essentially freedom of speech in print.

"That's why we are writing a sunset clause into the Impress articles of association, to ensure that Impress can never be used to limit the freedom of the press to speak truth to power.

That has led the German press to speak about PEGIDA as a force from the East, and while there is something to that, the picture is complicated by HAGIDA, BAGIDA, BOGIDA, WÜGIDA, KÖGIDA, and KAGIDA (from Hanover, Bavaria, Bonn, Würzberg, Cologne, and Kassel), all in the West.

It is also the duty of the press to speak the truth, be you a columnist or publisher, be you an African American writing for either mainstream media or the Black press.

In the years since her father died she's turned down many offers from the French press to speak about him, but with the release of The Connection she's decided she wants to tell her side of the story.