Sentence examples for swiftly pressed from inspiring English sources

The gunners stood by their cannon but were no match for the bayonets of the British and Madras troops who swiftly pressed on towards the Maratha infantry.

Senator John Kerry's campaign seized on Mr. Bush's phraseology -- a military term of art conveying what can happen when armies succeed swiftly -- to press its case that Mr. Bush had rushed into the war without planning for the costs, for the extent of the military power that would be needed and for what would come afterward.

A young man in shorts and a T-shirt worked swiftly along the line: he pressed a layer of jute onto each pile of cork-and-latex mixture, then topped it with a thin suède liner, like a dried tobacco leaf, before shunting it into an oven.

Swiftly he lifted her up and pressed her to the wall.

The I.O.C. had pressed the skating union to act swiftly to resolve the controversy.

From roughly 1960 onward the developed world's railroads, pressed hard by highway and air competition, progressed swiftly into a new technological age.

Mr. Abe has pressed Japanese companies to respond to the economic upswing by swiftly raising wages and expanding employment.

The weight of that occasion -- difficult to capture in words -- pressed on me throughout the ceremonies commemorating the lives lost, too swiftly and too soon.

Unfortunately, Mozilo pressed "reply" instead of "forward" and his short-tempered opinion bounced back to Bailey, who swiftly posted it on an online discussion board.

Hollis's rocky relationship with the press swiftly gained him a reputation as being something of a surly, self-obsessed character.

She ranked sixth in Vanity Fair's top 10 best-dressed first ladies of the world  and was thrown in at the deep end during her first term, the international press swiftly pitting her against the blushing bride of France's then-president, former supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.