Sentence examples for pressed towards from inspiring English sources

All the migrants pressed towards the windows and the ship's balance was shaken.

I think most people resist that, but are pressed towards it by an increasingly sadistic elite.

Indeed, some mediators think a rougher environment, both in the region and overseas, is the only way that Israel will be pressed towards giving Palestinians a proper state.

But Afghanistan could revert to its murderous past form at any time, Pakistan gives genuine cause for concern, and the leaders of the former Soviet republics need to be pressed towards better behaviour.

Instead of a block of ink-stained type being pressed on to a page, the book itself is pressed towards the light and its contents are released into the digital ether, to be republished, retransmitted once again.

This is a method of redirecting the tumor microenvironment towards a 'correct' homeostatic status by which all the constituents of an entire tissue ecology are pressed towards a normative information set.

And here the wider pressure – cultural, social, economic – will inevitably press towards a greater take-up of the suicide option.

Gently move forward, allowing your chest to press towards the corner until you feel a comfortable stretch.

Drawing upon points made in the previous section, gender-transformative programmes often call upon men who experience intensive and cumulative economic and social disempowerment to press towards the democratisation of gender relations between women and men.

Emboldened by their capture of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, militias loyal to the Islamic Courts Union pressed south towards Kenya and west towards Ethiopia.

My legs are crossed and pressed up towards my lower back.