Sentence examples for pressing young from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors had hoped to use Mr. Lubanga's trial, scheduled to open June 23, to highlight what rights groups and others have called the widespread practice of pressing young boys and girls into war as killers, messengers, cooks and sex slaves.

In BBC Radio 6 Music's John Peel lecture in October, Charlotte Church blasted "the culture of demeaning women" and accused labels of pressing young singers to "present themselves as hypersexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects, reducing female sexuality to a prize you can win".

Many teachers later thanked him for pressing Young.

The wealth of the Church in Sicily was further enhanced by the tradition of pressing younger children of the aristocracy to enter monasteries and convents, in order to preserve the family estates from division; a large fee, or dowry, was usually paid to the Church to facilitate this, in the form of property, jewels, or money.

Take All's Well that Ends Well, which "features a young Frenchman being pressed into marriage, written at a time when the author was himself pressing a young Frenchman into marriage".

The issue of illegal immigrant students has become pressing because young immigrants have staged increasingly frequent and defiant protests to demand passage this year of the piece of the overhaul that would benefit them.

That, combined with a predominantly Muslim population – where relationships outside of wedlock are generally frowned upon – have made the need for Skype all the more pressing for young couples.

The two were found in the prow of the boat, and were only discovered by Sollustri and his team after they broke through what he described as "a wall of bodies", including a woman pressing a young child to her chest and a teenage boy with a T-shirt emblazoned with the word 'Italia'Italia

Messages should address the issues that are most pressing for young people: the effects of repeated use and side effects.

The second-eldest of 12, Mr. Boehner began his career as a leader by pressing his younger siblings into housework.

But if Mr Baker can give that call real substance, by pressing the younger Mr Bush to be more like his father in Israeli-Palestinian affairs, the rest of his suggestions, on Iraq, Iran and Syria, are more likely to work too.