Sentence examples for pressing scale from inspiring English sources

Voluntary French charity, when exercised on a great & pressing scale, is organized differently from charity in the U.S.; here it begins with the government, and at the top.

By August, White House aides were pressing to scale back the mission and to reopen the issue of how many troops might be needed.

Banks fought hard to keep those provisions out of Dodd-Frank, and, even now, they are still pressing to scale them back.

We believe that the design and analytical advances identified in this review provide a framework for ecologists to address pressing large-scale questions.

The responses of survey participants reveal a lack of knowledge of how HIV is transmitted and misplaced fear of contracting the virus that indicate a pressing need to scale up prevention and education efforts.

Now that the bill allowing possession and home cultivation has been signed into law in Vermont, supporters appear ready to keep pressing toward full-scale commercial legalization.

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And a who's who of top Democrats in Michigan, considered a battleground state, have been pressing Mr. Kerry to scale back.

The decision comes as the Bush administration is pressing all agencies to scale back spending requests for the fiscal 2006 budget, which will be submitted to lawmakers early next year.

After indicating a response, participants were requested to rate the confidence of their decision on a 4-point scale by pressing a key (from 1 = least confident, to 4 = most confident).

Even at a time of rising defense budgets, reorienting the military to deal with these new threats will require pressing the services to scale back long-favored weapons systems and winning over lawmakers whose districts could lose jobs if programs are scrapped.