How To Use Hard-pressed In A Sentence
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And but so then the solo hits and you'd be way hard-pressed to call it anything besides countrified, wouldn't you?
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Internet loan companies are booming at the expense of hard-pressed consumers.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All of this is very tough for the hard-pressed British farming sector.
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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
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A weaker dollar would give hard-pressed U.S. manufacturers some relief from low-priced imports.
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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.
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It worked well, and I can recommend it to any hard-pressed exec who needs to take control of a busy schedule.
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Right now, even their toughest critics are hard-pressed to find something wrong with the Eagles.
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As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle.
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To understand the gravity of this, simply look at virtually any custom knifemaker's or manufacturer's tactical line and you'll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn't offer a tanto.
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Besides, it is unfair to expect hard-pressed staff to act out a charade to which they are culturally unsuited.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
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When the two had been introduced, Miss Davenport concealed a sneer with difficulty, Clarissa could see, and the governess was hard-pressed to stop her cheeks from flushing.
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Like the most diaphanous works by Turner or Rothko, it suggests representational elements, yet one is hard-pressed to discern any in the image.
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The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
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‘Uhm… yes, I'm here ’, I replied lurching forward about two metres into the already hard-pressed crowd.
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When hard-pressed, they soon take to the water, and swim so well that a four oared boat can scarcely come up with them, but an Esquimaux in his kaiak more readily overtakes them.
The Moravians in Labrador
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He believed that long before their ads had run their course, the favorable first impression Morrison had made would have been replaced with the one they wanted: a once reputable officer who spent too much of his retirement hanging out with rich people and advocating their interests over the needs of hard-pressed Americans.
O: A Presidential Novel
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The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
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If you had asked me, I think I would have been hard-pressed to explain why I pretended to be sick so much.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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They would rather work than live off the earnings of other hard-pressed taxpayers.
The Sun
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The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
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As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle.
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Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
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It's so successful that public radio stations are hard-pressed to survive without it.
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But the fear is that if Billiton takes over the supply of coal with cheap foreign imports, the hard-pressed UK coal-mining industry would need to slash jobs to make up for the loss of the contract.
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We welcome the extra money for genito-urinary medicine services announced by the Government today but it's vital that it directly reaches these hard-pressed front-line services.
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The Skyhawks, lugging a full bombload, seldom made more than 350 knots, and the sleeker, more powerful Crusaders were hard-pressed to remain with the formation.
On Yankee Station
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This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
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In spite of its 20 million players in 185 countries, squash, by its very nature, will be always be hard-pressed to translate to telly's flatscreen blandness its unique snakepit ferocity, rat-a-tat machine‑gun speed and intimate competitive intensities.
World champion Nick Matthew presses the case for squash | Frank Keating
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But it will be a mixed blessing for hard-pressed taxpayers.
The Sun
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Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines, you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.
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Absent an uptick in trading activity, or another run-up in commodity prices, Glencore will be hard-pressed to achieve 2011 earnings of $6.4 billion, as forecast by banks associated with its IPO.
Glencore's Slow Start
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The internal scaler on the unit performed quite well and we were hard-pressed to notice any scaling artifacts.
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How often do we, the hard-pressed citizens, ponder this topic as we bump along potholed roads or survey the latest round of digging up along our main streets?
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Banning junk food from school dinners is sensible, but objecting to the contents of a packed lunch that may have been provided by a hard-pressed single mother with limited domestic skills is trespassing on sensitive territory.
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But more must be done to keep costs under control for hard-pressed households who already say spiralling energy prices are their top financial concern.
Times, Sunday Times
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a hard-pressed, whole-milk English cheese which is available in two versions: an expensive and prized blue kind which some consider superior to Stilton; and an almost unmatured white variety which is produced and sold on a large scale.
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Motoring groups say it is another example of hard-pressed drivers being squeezed by a stealth tax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet there is hope for hard-pressed consumers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outlook: The Ravens will be hard-pressed to match last year's 13-3 mark, but the postseason is the real barometer.
Bitter end to 2006 leaves Ravens wanting more
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The health revolution continued: full-cream milk gave way to semi - skimmed, to the extent that in Adelaide you'd be hard-pressed to find anything else.
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I'd be hard-pressed to condense it in a single CD, which would be the fourth from these sessions.
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The move follows a slump in payouts to hard-pressed savers, which has left many significantly poorer in old age.
Times, Sunday Times
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While young and healthy workers can obtain catastrophic insurance relatively cheaply, many are still hard-pressed to pay the premiums and deductibles.
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This will put more pressure on hard-pressed staff.
The Sun
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You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.
The Sun
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This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.
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The hard-pressed British garrison called for army and air force reinforcements.
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MPs will decide this week on a call to reduce VAT on fuel for millions of hard-pressed motorists.
The Sun
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Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution.
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The industry is very hard-pressed after experiencing several very difficult years,’ he said.
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The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
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Meantime the Trojan camp, fortified only by earthworks and deprived of its leader and its best warriors, was hard-pressed.
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One thing I will hand to the bakeries that have trendified this dessert — and sell it for $3.50 per slice — is that two years ago, I’d have been hard-pressed to find these cookies in any store seriously, I still can’t even find the product on Nabisco’s website and now, not only do they hold some shelf-space at my local Gristedes, I can order them from Amazon.
Icebox cake | smitten kitchen
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At the General Medical Council hearing he painted a picture of a hard-pressed doctor who had to cope with a heavy workload, well above that of other surgeons within the limited time and equipment available in an NHS hospital.
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Maurizio is unlike any doctor I've seen for a long while, nothing like my GP, in her jeans, or the hard-pressed shirtsleeved junior registrars in our local children's casualty department.
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Although this is marvellous news for our already hard-pressed industry, there are many problems.
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And then, one who stares at a computer terminal for hours together would not be hard-pressed to market a ‘dancing bindi’ and bung in an application package for the same.
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The tab picked up by hard-pressed taxpayers?
The Sun
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It must be allowed that Dryden would have been hard-pressed to find another episode from ancient epic which so peculiarly recalled recent history.
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MORE pain for the hard-pressed motorist.
The Sun
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Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
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If rural communities are indeed to do that, it will be good news for Scotland's most hard-pressed areas, well worth the difficulty of prising rolling acres of hill and moor away from the landowners.
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It will give a great boost to Britain's hard-pressed tourism industry and it is a great coup for York.
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One of the common complaints of patients at hard-pressed GP practices is the difficulty in getting an appointment, particularly at short notice.
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With less than two weeks to go in the third quarter, companies will be hard-pressed to fulfill earlier, more optimistic expectations.
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Regular repeaters were hard-pressed to name their favorite.
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You're hard-pressed at any time to tell there are no spark plugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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New companies - the ‘infidels’ - can make the kinds of offers that any industry leader would be hard-pressed to match.
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A variety of good causes have been mentioned - the government's debt repayment scheme, hard-pressed public services or cash-strapped government departments - and all have a strong case.
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Time with any hard-pressed family would teach them not to be so wasteful.
The Sun
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Even proponents of counterinsurgency are hard-pressed to explain the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from subtle scriptural references on the posters, and the contemporary Christian music playing behind the reception desk, an unwitting visitor might be hard-pressed to identify the building as a church.
American Grace
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Still, when times get tough, hard-pressed companies don't stop to worry about the collective good.
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Beside that was a patch of hard-pressed gravel, part of the area where the "groundlings" - theatergoers holding cheap standing-room-only tickets - crowded together to watch plays.
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financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
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The wider the debates the more they are likely to harass, confuse and distract hard-pressed District Court judges and magistrates in particular.
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This behaviour was an acting out of his unsatisfied infantile need for physical contact with his hard-pressed mother.
Growing Through Loss and Grief
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Without access to the original paperwork, however, "you can really be hard-pressed" to find the information you need, says James H. Guarino , a partner at Boston-area accounting and consulting firm MFA - Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico LLP.
Tips for Solving the Cost-Basis Mystery
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It is a turn of events even the most inventive Hollywood screenwriter would be hard-pressed to make up.
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Why does the Government insist on making things tighter for already hard-pressed families?
The Sun
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He would in fact have been hard-pressed to discuss postwar monetary and foreign policy or domestic issues such as labor agitation and demobilization.
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Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines, you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.
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His clearances kept his side out of danger when required, whereas David Adamson of Stirling County did not find touch frequently enough, and when he did, it was seldom deep enough to give his hard-pressed pack welcome breathing space.
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Earlier this year, the U.S. imposed up to 30% in safeguard tariffs for three years to protect the U.S. steel industry hard-pressed by less expensive imports.
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You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more backward-looking, wasteful and self-defeating energy ‘plan’ than this one.
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Among its priorities will be better treatment for the chronically ill, offering treatment in the community and at home and reducing the need for stays in local hospitals, which are among the most hard-pressed in the country.
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Like English-speakers in any era, Sir John and his fellow anti-inkhornians would have been hard-pressed to avoid borrowed terms.
The English Is Coming!
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More likely they will be used to milk already hard-pressed motorists.
The Sun
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After all, I'm hard-pressed to think of a single heterosexual marriage I admire in which at least one partner wasn't unfaithful over the years.
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In a hard-pressed inpatient unit they will be a very low priority.
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We are hard-pressed to think of many other behaviors that are so common among one half of the population and rare among the other half—maybe carrying a purse.
American Grace
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Verheugen will, to be sure, have to show that he can resist his country's tendency to bolster its own hard-pressed industry through corporate deals at the European level; but he seems inclined to at least have a fight.
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Shelley was hard-pressed to keep up as she was jostled with each step by dancing maniacs who didn't seem to care who they hit.
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Sure, international interest is growing in general, but as American consumers continue their romance with vodkas and tequilas, America's native whiskey is hard-pressed to keep pace.
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Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
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And the youngster kept his nerve to strike two more penalties, which sealed the fate of the by now hard-pressed Castlemen.
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Doncaster GP Andrew Marshall, who has led a national campaign to get a new contract, said it could offer ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for hard-pressed doctors struggling with staff shortages.
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The hard-pressed staff have been left to clean up and stick it on the bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Greenway said: ‘It's a disaster for an already hard-pressed pig industry.’
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Then you'll be hard-pressed to explain the source of Japanese affricates, ts and z then.
Linear A treatment of consonant clusters
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A visit from Canterbury certainly cheers up hard-pressed and often despondent clergy and congregations.
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While he clearly indicates productions he considers successful, I would be hard-pressed to descry a pattern among them.
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Many of you have been personally touched by violence, as I have -- and though I used a one-word descriptor, I'm betting we'd all be hard-pressed to find just one word to describe the deep wound of the violent act we individually suffered.
Cheryl Saban: Unlearning Violence - It's about Education
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I trust that our council is not spending the £20,000 per day collected from hard-pressed motorists on decorating our roads to the point where they start to resemble a tart's boudoir.
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The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
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Although negotiators are optimistic, the details are complex enough that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.
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In doing so, the author's attention to detail is exceptional, with the reader being hard-pressed to find any technical errors amid the nomenclatures, characteristics or capabilities of equipment cited.
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Permissive parenting has been blamed, rightly so I suppose, but as a parent with two that age or over and another nearly there I have a glass house and cannot afford to throw any stones at other hard-pressed parents.
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The fact of the matter is that Rome, in late summer, is inundated with tourists and the most resourceful traveler would be hard-pressed to escape the hoards of tour groups roaming the city.
Michael Yarbrough: A Student's Guide to Backpacking: Rome
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Housing benefit cheats on the Yorkshire coast face being pursued by debt collectors and the courts in a new purge on fraud which has already reduced the money owed to hard-pressed local chargepayers by nearly two-thirds.
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Older workers were among the first fired, and some hard-pressed corporations reneged on pension promises.
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The baseballers will be praying for a miracle against defending champions Cuba and the women's hockey team will be hard-pressed to overcome the tough Germans in their Games opener.
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As a result, Black colleges will be hard-pressed to keep pace because of the wide disparity in economic resources between HBCUs and predominantly White schools.
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Still, you'd be hard-pressed to find a fresher, more affecting show in the city this summer.
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Childcare costs continue to spiral, squeezing already hard-pressed parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
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For a hard-pressed family and a frugal son, this was a real financial benefit.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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As it was, precision kicking from stand-off Louis Koen and a fine try from veteran wing Stefan Terblanche sealed the victory for South Africa, and only superb defence by the hard-pressed visitors kept the score respectable.
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So are retail bonds the answer for hard-pressed savers?
Times, Sunday Times
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You would be hard-pressed to find many high street chains that could claim that proportion now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three 56-minute games in two days proved a tough timetable for both sides, with Teddington, who have lost 14 players since last season, particularly hard-pressed.
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Sorrell's previous forecast was for an upturn in 2004 as the US Presidential election and the Athens Olympics provide a welcome boost to demand for the hard-pressed advertising and media industry.
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Many distillers are hard-pressed to admit that they even market a white rum.
Tony Sachs: How To Make A Real Daiquiri - And The Best White Rums To Make It With
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It allows hard-pressed pensioners to extract money from their homes without having to sell them.
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Although they lack the capability to fire real ammunition, some look and feel so realistic that even skilled police marksmen are hard-pressed to tell the difference.
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It may sound too time consuming and a bit like baby sitting for busy hard-pressed organisations and businesses.
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This is too long for hard-pressed consumers to wait.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Ald. Deener said the lack of a reserve fund meant the city would be hard-pressed to pay for a sewer emergency.
QCOnline Metro News
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You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in football who takes the role more seriously.
Times, Sunday Times
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'gazundering'; a light-hearted term which belies the abject misery its ruthless practitioners are causing to thousands of hard-pressed families - not to mention the damage they are inflicting on England's battered housing market.
House Price Crash News Blog
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In the end, the $7 trillion fund industry, with all its legendary clout, will be hard-pressed to blunt reforms.
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I'm kinda hard-pressed to imagine a scenario where my HDD is vulnerable to theft or instrusion and not likely to be stored with the dongle that's required to make it work (i.e., laptop-bag snatches will only be foiled you if you don't carry the key in the bag, and after you've left the key at home once or twice on a cross-continent trip, how likely are you to carry them together?
Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives
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Even in Israel, you'd be hard-pressed to find a minyan of people still composing and performing original music in Yiddish.
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However, it is hard-pressed to match the wits of Charles Hyatt and Fae Ellington.
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Ethics committees act as a gatekeeper for broader social and political ideas or prejudices, and are yet another hurdle for hard-pressed scientists to overcome before they can even start upon their investigations.
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Infantry battalions would fall from 40 to 36 but with manpower redistributed to boost the hard-pressed Army logisticians, engineers, signallers and intelligence.
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Result: hard-pressed people, feeling the energy of the Net as they eyeball the screen, feeling more tension, will tend to stiffen their shoulders and stick with the sites that deliver.
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This may give some relief to hard-pressed mortgage payers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hard-pressed junior doctors want shorter working hours.
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For one thing, drivers who do not have a garage, or at least a house with an exterior electric outlet, would be hard-pressed to find a place to plug in for several hours a day.
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You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more heterogeneous collection of oddments.
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In particular it illustrates how wide the gap is between the sonorous resolutions of the Security Council and the situations that hard-pressed humanitarian workers and others often have to deal with in the field.
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Due to the strength of this year's fiscal stimulus, though, such outlays will be hard-pressed to carry GDP forward in 2010.
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The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
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You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more heterogeneous collection of oddments.
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These are valuable strategies that can rarely be exploited in a busy surgery or on a hard-pressed understaffed ward but form the basis of care within multidisciplinary pain management clinics.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular gamebird than the ringneck pheasant.
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Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution.
