gay-liberation movement & the attitude of the press towards homosexuality.
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.
And here the wider pressure – cultural, social, economic – will inevitably press towards a greater take-up of the suicide option.
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.
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.
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.
Soldiers press towards the stable, their vicious-bladed pikes closing the sky, a military presence as jarring and sinister as the death squad in The Massacre of the Innocents.
This convergence of contingent views expresses a marked shift from past strident partisanship and party loyalty in the press, towards a sceptical view of all political options on offer.
As Gatting moves, a slight press towards leg-side, he can hear the fizz of the delivery, something by no means unique to Warne but which was particularly pronounced in these early hard-spun years before his first shoulder operation.
