Sentence examples similar to pressing chief from inspiring English sources

Copra (dried coconut) making and oil pressing are the chief industries.

Over the next year, I want to try and answer some of the pressing questions about pay, chief among them: are they worth it?

And, she said, he is frequently on the phone with senior administration officials, including the homeland security chief, Tom Ridge, pressing the state's case.

A glance across the humbled telecommunications industry might suggest that its largest companies are worried about other pressing issues in 2003, chief among them stabilizing the market for the tried-and-true service of placing calls from a phone tightly tethered to a jack.

The administration has made clear that Mr. Obama will not necessarily follow the advice of his generals in the same way Mr. Bush did, notably in the former president's deference to Gen. David H. Petraeus, now the head of the Central Command, and that it does not want military leaders publicly pressing the commander in chief as they give their advice.

All summer, Paulson had been pressing Lehman's chairman and chief executive, Richard S. Fuld, Jr., to find a buyer or a major investor for the firm.

The district prosecutors accused the new chief, Talaat Ibrahim Abdullah, of pressing one of their peers to file charges against a group of opposition protesters accused of receiving money to use violence.

Talks in Geneva broke down last week over breaches of the cessation of hostilities and Obama again said he was pressing the Syrian regime's chief ally, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to reinstate the ceasefire.

"Given our experience operating a nationwide program for examinations and our ability to leverage existing technology and staff resources to support a similar program for investment advisers, we believe we are uniquely positioned to serve as at least part of the solution to this pressing problem," Richard G. Ketchum, Finra's chief executive, is expected to tell the committee on Tuesday.

The latest bad news from the tech bellwether came in the form of a memo to employees from Chief Executive Steve Ballmer Steve Ballmer, pressing the need to reduce costs in the face of falling software sales.

"Basing Titan on Tesla GPUs allows Oak Ridge to run phenomenally complex applications at scale, and validates the use of 'accelerated computing' to address our most pressing scientific problems," said Steve Scott, chief technology officer of the GPU accelerated computing business at Nvidia.