hard-pressed

How To Use hard-pressed In A Sentence

• And but so then the solo hits and you'd be way hard-pressed to call it anything besides countrified, wouldn't you?
• Internet loan companies are booming at the expense of hard-pressed consumers. The Sun
• Yet, it was clearly established that even a modest weight reduction and improved weight control could bring health benefits, and relieve the burden on hard-pressed health systems.
• Aviva joins a growing band of hard-pressed life insurance companies putting the slide rule over their Irish operations in a bid to cut costs.
• The hard-pressed Minstead team, bolstered by full-time officers from the Yard's murder squad, was in danger of becoming bogged down in the laborious task of weeding out suspects on the fringe of the investigation.
• All of this is very tough for the hard-pressed British farming sector.
• This is the time when hard-pressed gardeners and farmers are watching the sky for signs of rain as soils grow drier. Times, Sunday Times
• A weaker dollar would give hard-pressed U.S. manufacturers some relief from low-priced imports.
• Scotland's hard-pressed tourism industry has been hit by an 8% fall in the number of high-spending American visitors for the second year running.
• It worked well, and I can recommend it to any hard-pressed exec who needs to take control of a busy schedule.