Sentence examples for pressing act from inspiring English sources

But what has made him an artist, and a popular artist, is the completeness of his performances: the level of concentration, the fullness of ambition, the sheer amount of detail, with the cast of the shoulder, the angle of the jaw, even the splay of the fingers, all deployed in the service of a single, pressing act of imagination.

Bush aides said the announcement was made now because of recent progress in climate-related research that shows it's pressing to act.

Its technology is similar to a French press, except there's no pressing (a violent act, in Mr. Sowden's view).

Meanwhile, people have to start objecting to these unfair agreements, which often relieve businesses and institutions of their most basic responsibilities, pressing individuals to act as their insurers.

Saying that it was "remarkable that we got this far," Menon thanked the U.S. for its role in pressing Pakistan to act.

Apparently convinced that there was no longer a pressing need to act, the British government recently stepped back from banning large payments to bosses when they are booted out for failure.

The United States is pressing Pakistan to act more aggressively against the Haqqani network, but Pakistan has so far resisted; it considers the group more of an asset than a threat because it operates primarily in Afghanistan.

With another wildfire season that has scorched about 8 million acres, or about 2.5 million more acres than in an average year according to the National Interagency Coordination Center, Western lawmakers from both parties are again pressing Congress to act.

Today, President Clinton appeared in the Rose Garden to lay out his agenda, pressing Congress to act in what he called "the remaining 38 working days" of this legislative session.

-- Trump, eager to make good on his promises to overturn Obamacare, continued pressing Republicans to act – with Mike Pence again traveling to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers, and Trump phoning them from the Oval Office.

He is a medical doctor and professor of clinical paediatrics at the University of California who has emerged as the guru of an increasingly noisy international campaign pressing governments to act as aggressively on sugary drinks as they have on tobacco.