Sentence examples for pressed us to from inspiring English sources

"Almost every villager pressed us to ban the mobile phones use by the schoolgirls saying they are proving quite dangerous for the society and corrupting traditional values," the local village council head, Sushma Singh, told the Guardian on Tuesday.

"He never pressed us to conduct religious rituals," she told me.

Shane MacGowan's lyrics pressed us to march across London as if armed with cobblestones and lengths of railing, shouting oaths.

"They had pressed us to say what we wanted to accomplish with the changes we wanted," Miller recalled.

"The authorities pressed us to join the league," said Kim Ki-ban, 87, at a news conference called by the commission on Thursday.

He pointed out that the Irish had "pressed us to indicate in the communique that we would be making changes concerning the Ulster Defence Regiment".

"Other countries can't press us to depreciate or appreciate our currency".

And throughout, its more than 200 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings press us to think about our own fast-changing photographic culture.

And throughout this exhibition's more than 200 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings press us to think about our own fast-changing photographic culture.

All the while, the teachings of our faith and spiritual traditions press us to do more for the less fortunate, and do it now.

It was understandable then that Vatican officials pressed us as to why the Simon Wiesenthal Center wanted a second audience with John Paul II. "Judaism has a mandate of 'Hakarat Hatov' -- recognizing someone when they do act righteously.