Sentence examples for was not hard pressed from inspiring English sources

Jamie Spencer's companion trotted away from Alta Lilea inside the final furlong and was not hard pressed in accounting for Phiz by a length and a quarter.

Having been Workforce's pacemaker in the King George, he was settled in last place for this gallop and was not hard pressed to follow his stablemate to the line at a respectful distance of five lengths.

Las Vegas Sands and MGM Mirage, too, are not hard pressed to move forward on their expansion projects.

Or let's say you wanted to go to Bloomingdales with your bestie, but have a bunch of stuff to do before hand and aren't hard pressed on time so you can go whenever.

Reading the construction press, it's not hard to see why this is allowed to happen.

While I, and many real experts, might defend spending tens of thousands of taxpayer pounds promoting migration, it's not hard to see what the popular press would have made of it.

- When an adverb can also be an adjective (eg hard), the hyphen is required to avoid ambiguity – it's not a hard, pressed person, but a hard-pressed one; an ill-prepared report, rather than an ill, prepared one.

Mr. Zarif was not pressed hard on the details of Iran's position or its activities elsewhere in the Middle East, and he used his appearance here to present Iran as peace-minded and victimized by Western and Israeli anxiety, which he insisted was unfounded, about Iran's military, nuclear and regional aims.

I only heard the Today programme interview during which Duncan Smith was not pressed particularly hard about "shirkers" or the Conservative party's "slob on the sofa" advertising campaign.

"Biden was not pressed as hard".

He wasn't pressed hard for any policy details, nor challenged about his well-catalogued dislike of the truth.