Sentence examples for pressing to close from inspiring English sources

Executives were pressing to close the paper, primarily to defend Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy BSkyB.

The union is part of a coalition of labor groups and other organizations that are pressing to close a loophole in the state's property taxes and to increase taxes on the state's wealthiest residents.

Normally a broker can straighten it out, but the purchaser may extract revenge either by pressing to close early or finding another way to give it back to the seller somehow".

The after-party, with Mr. Banderas and Ms. Griffith standing hand in hand, and journalists and fans and friends pressing to get close to them, is pandemonium.

The crush of bodies pressing to get closer to Rodriguez as he spoke before the game turned the visitors' dugout into a mosh pit.

And Israel is exploiting the new latitude it has gained as a result.Since the American-led war in Iraq, Washington has been pressing Syria to close the Damascus offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and expel their leaders.

Consequently, industry officials are pressing to substantially increase annual funding, closer to the $420 million a year that rival New York provides.

Greece has been threatened with expulsion from the EU's border-free Schengen zone, while eastern Europe is pressing for Macedonia to close its border with northern Greece.

The secretary general of the Tehran Bazaar and Trade Union, a powerful official close to the government, accused unspecified outside instigators of pressing bazaar merchants to close their shops.

And in almost all cases, the new scores showed that achievement was higher among students in the wealthier districts than in the poorer ones, a gap that New Jersey courts have for more than a decade been pressing the state to close by equalizing spending among districts.

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