"was pressed over" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It generally means that someone felt the pressure of a particular situation or circumstance. For example, "The CEO was pressed over the company's financial results."
The Kentucky senator abruptly ended the interview when he was pressed over whether his campaign focus on the racial imbalances of criminal justice reform would win him support among Republicans.
The Democratic nominee was pressed over a disclosure in emails leaked via WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website, which revealed she said during a speech paid for by a Brazilian bank that her "dream" was for a "hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders".
The Labour leader was pressed over his experience outside of politics during an Ask The Leaders session organised by Sky News and Facebook.
I think he'll get a Pulitzer [Prize]." During the Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson was pressed over whether he had lied to Conservative leader Michael Howard about allegations of an affair in 2004 - which resulted in his resignation as shadow arts minister - as well as claims he had been sacked from the Times during the late 1980s.
Next a mating die is pressed over the top, finishing the forming operation, and finally the edges are sheared off to give the final dimensions.
The US embassy in Juba has also been pressed over its failure to help Americans under attack at the Terrain despite desperate calls for help.
The executives were pressed over whether the bank's leverage level and lack of foresight on a looming collapse of the United States mortgage market made it the first major victim of the financial crisis.
Most were produced using the cire-perdue or lost wax technique, in which figures are lightly modeled in wax over a clay core; when finished, fine wet clay is pressed over the surface of the sculpture to create a mold.
The move means the government will not face any rebellion over the issue but it is still being pressed over another Lords amendment calling for a ban on pregnant women being held in immigration detention.
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, December 19 , 1942P. 64 The Beveridge Report, which had been heard of for so long that people were beginning to wonder whether a limp wet blanket hadn't been pressed over its mouth, finally came out, to the accompaniment of many cheers and surprisingly few howls.
One of her armpits, dark and dense and moist, is pressed over your nose.
