Sentence examples for pressing in on from inspiring English sources

Whether we are talking about the growing interdependence among nations or the one billion people using social networks or the national resource constraints pressing in on us, it seems clear that older boundaries, frameworks and ways of operating are being shattered.

Shouldn't the novel seem dated by now--afflicted with an "oddly period feel," as Michael Chabon put it--pushing an envelope whose sides, thanks inter alia to the novel itself, we no longer feel pressing in on us very much?

It's just that things have a way of pressing in on you".

I've got the whole weight of the whole earth pressing in on this little box.

There are fears the town could be submerged by the swollen tide pressing in on its waterlogged river dykes.

"There's a world pressing in on the world of the play, and it's the world of merchandising," Mr. Baitz said.

There's definitely something of the claustrophobically indoor style of Guy Maddin in the way Chapman has conceived of his film: you can feel the studio walls pressing in even on the apparently blue-sky and sunlit exterior scenes.

The unscripted remarks of the jubilant 20-year-old, delivered with a celebration pressing in around him on Monday night, apparently did not meet the approval of Dee Dee Bonner.

Among the many questions that arose during a matinee performance on Sunday, the most pressing in the end was, Why on earth did it take so long for this emotionally engaging, musically thrilling work to reach an American stage?

Such problems are perhaps more pressing in the English boarding school, on which Hogwarts is modelled.

While EBPR is used globally with success, the systems do suffer intermittent periods of poor performance, and improvements of operation and performance are pressing in view of future constraints on the water cycle enhanced by global climate change.