Sentence examples for pressured him over from inspiring English sources

But Mangold's Jets teammates and Coach Rex Ryan had pressured him over the past week — "really laying on the guilt trip," he said Friday — to go, even though it meant missing a Saturday night scrimmage and perhaps a Monday practice.

He once famously suggested that he might join the Taliban if the U.S. continued to pressure him over corruption in the government and his brothers' alleged links with the Kabul Bank scam and drug traffickers.

Female Democratic leaders turned up the heat on Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady at a press conference on Friday, pressuring him over a growing scandal in the Cook County Republican Party.

Mr. Grossman had been a Communist in his youth, but he had distanced himself from the party when it pressured him to choose politics over art.

Political circles here were jolted by a claim in May by Gilmar Mendes, a Supreme Court judge, that Mr. da Silva had pressured him to delay the trial over the scandal.

On Syria, he repeated the administration's insistence that Mr. Assad would ultimately have to step down, though he provided no clues as to what steps the United States might take to pressure him to hand over power.

Quentin had been perturbed by someone pressuring him to hand over his life's work and savings so they could "look after things for him".

He said they tried to pressure him into handing over the drone but he refused, plainly telling them that he wanted to sell it for profit.

Lawyers had been arguing over the papers; the C.I.A. had been pressuring him to turn them over.

"But Beijing will continue to put pressure on him over 'one China' to keep him moving in the right direction".

"With the deputy crown prince's visit, UK officials should try to exert some real pressure on him over Saudi Arabia's disgraceful human rights record.