The rumour followed that the jihadis were pressing upon Irbil.
The novel I've been pressing upon friends is Susan Choi's "My Education".
The penis is external, its reactions more readily perceived and pressing upon consciousness.
Matthew Arnold was influential in pressing upon the English conscience the importance of public education for the state.
During the 15th and 16th centuries the Mongols regained their strength and began pressing upon the Chinese frontier.
AMONG the forces pressing upon Japan, none has changed more since the country's asset-bubble burst in 1990 than its own neighbourhood.
The voters of Iowa and New Hampshire played their usual role of inspecting the candidates up close, helping winnow the field and pressing upon the candidates the need to be responsive and listen to voters.
His mother, Jackie Onassis, stamped her disapproving Gucci feet and, pressing upon him a sense of destiny and the significance of the Kennedy name, pushed him off to a life in public service via law school.
But I choose to believe that the consciousness Foster Wallace was pressing upon us, the vital importance of avoiding a default setting of dumb materialism, is to be found in the ocean.
Hitchens's untimely death last year, at the age of sixty-two, has thrown this remark into relief, pressing upon those of us who persist in writing the uncomfortable truth that anything we're working on has the potential to be published posthumously; that death might not be far off, and that, given this disturbing reality, we might pay attention to it.
Scar tissue pressing upon spinal nerves can cause radiating pain through the legs as well as debilitating lower back pain.
