How To Use Press on In A Sentence

The increasing swelling of an aneurysm of the aorta may press on the spine and chest organs.
Nevertheless, we will press on and as I said we will continue to keep you right up to date with what is happening.
I only know that it is the best which I can find, to express one excellence which we see in our Lord, which is like what we call modesty in common human beings. Town and Country Sermons
It demonstrated how comprehensively one could control one's body and express oneself using the body.
This was to impress on visitors that shareholders'and customers'money was spent on essentials, not frills.

They would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival. Conqueror's Moon
Their honesty and hospitality an enduring impress on her life.
Some big firms have cut the pay of senior executives in a move to impress on humbler employees that times are tough.
You press one button and a whole backing track emerges. Times, Sunday Times
To overcome this poor responsiveness, recombinant poxvirus vectors, including vaccinia, fowlpox and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), can be genetically engineered to express one or more tumor-associated antigens to greatly enhance the immune system's ability to recognize and destroy cancer cells bearing any of the targeted antigens. ® and CV-301 are prime-boost vaccines, sequentially combining two different poxviruses (vaccinia and fowlpox). Reuters: Press Release
Mr Simmons tried to impress on me how much easier my life would be if I were better organized.
The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature.
Oberon tells Puck, a mischievous sprite, to fetch him a certain magic flower, the juice of which he will press on the eyes of Titania while she sleeps, so that she may fall in love with what she first sees when she wakes.
He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead, the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated.
On the assumption that you too can handle a schizy reality -- Polanski did a bad thing and hasn't quite resolved it; he's made a magnificent movie -- let's press on to the film itself. Jesse Kornbluth: Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece.
After the appointment with somebody, I left no-good impress on others.
`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
Use your finger to press one nostril closed. The Sun
After all, it would seem ‘a terrible thing’ to express one's creed against others, in this case the Arians.
Once they score a ton the best batsmen take a fresh guard and press on remorselessly towards a double century. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Commission as "the settlement by the parties directly, of minor disputes, as to the interpretation of the terms of the labour contract, whether that contract be an express one or only a general understanding", while it is further stated that in England quite commonly the term conciliation is applied to "the discussion and settlement of questions between the parties themselves, or between their representatives who are themselves actually interested". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Cut two little strips to decorate the front of the shoulder pads and press on.
Press on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool.
He'd get a wee bit shirty, like you'd just spat on his baby, and tell you that we'd be finished in a few minutes so we'd best just press on ahead.
To express one's creativity - an increasing struggle in our information-driven technocracy - is to touch the very core of what it means to be human.
The uterus may also press on the rectum causing constipation.
Place a cold compress on the forehead. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
In his first words to the press on Tuesday from the Florencia airport in Colombia, Moncayo thanked the "indefatigable" Senator Cordoba, Colombians for Peace, the Catholic Church, and the International Red Cross. New on venezuelanalysis.com
I know it's almost midnight, but we'd better press on and get the job finished.
Press on to the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan.
If you press on a lid after the jars have cooled, and instead of being firm, it goes "boing", that means it hasn't sealed properly. Saints Preserve Us
Before I knew it, I had worked myself up into a frothing, barking frenzy and had to lay down and put a cold compress on my head.
I also would like to impress on them the importance of maximum transparency, the importance of joining what we call our additional protocol which gives us additional authority to visit sites and visit -- and receive more information. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2003
This is what I want to impress on her.
We must press on with the work if we are to finish it in time.
You have to press on the handle to turn it,it's very stiff.
The United States won a significant victory and, buoyed up by a public opinion that seems to hear no evil and see no evil, looks determined to press on and try and score others.
When I think about what my grandparents went through, I have to succeed, to press onward and upward.
You press one button and a whole backing track emerges. Times, Sunday Times
`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
Try to impress on the young adolescent that reading is a source of information. You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20
Simply move your doll around with a control stick, press one button to stack, another to "unstack," and a third to perform a special ability. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels.
When you run into an unknown, continue to press on and try to fill in the gaps.
With "burrowed" Bushite career employees in all the departments and agencies of government and with prominent Republicans mounting a full-court press on Obama's legislative agenda I fail to see why the actions of Judd Gregg have so captured the media's imagination. Joseph A. Palermo: Bipartisanship is Overrated
The only kind of kink I like is none of your damn business. am: You are probably asking yourself why I don't just go ahead and press one. am: I TRIED that. On Hold: Live Blogging an Eternity
Count on the outside of the wrapper until you reach the appropriate line, take a knife and gently press on that line, making an indention, but do not pierce through the wrapper just make it so when you take off the wrapper you will see the line. And so I begin… at
I also think the MySpace attitude towards layout (the erm, ability to fully express oneself, aka splatter pukalicious CSS everywhere) is one of the major reasons MySpace stuck. Massive Korean Social Network CyWorld Launches in US
So press on with enthusiasm as long as you do not impede the progress of others. The Sun
_ And I have insisted particularly upon the dependence of representations of locomotion upon knowledge of three-dimensional existence, because, before proceeding to the relations of Subject and Form in painting, I want to impress once more upon the reader the distinction between the _locomotion of things_ (locomotion active or passive) and what, in my example of the _mountain which rises, _ I have called the _empathic movement of lines. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
Jolie's Sarajevo producer, Edin Sarkic, told The Associated Press on Friday that the rumor about the rape victim falling in love with a rapist is "insane. Angelina Jolie To Bosnia: My Film Is Not A Rape Love Story
In all material things the New Journalism is a long way ahead of the Old; and yet, after chronicling its many triumphs -- culminating in the capture of _The Times_ -- its part-creator is fain to admit that "public distrust of news is the most notable feature in journalism of recent years," and that the influence of the daily Press on the public mind has hardly ever been at a lower ebb. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20
Bottomland forests of pecan, water oak, southern live oak, and elm, are typical, with some baldcypress on larger streams. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
So press on with enthusiasm as long as you do not impede the progress of others. The Sun
Organizers of the strike are determined to press on.
If your child does have symptoms after getting the flu shot, put a warm compress on the injection site to ease soreness or swelling, and give acetaminophen or ibuprofen for headache or low-grade fever.
The solemnity of the language of the resolution and the fact that it was initialled on each page and signed at the end was calculated to impress on the reader the intended finality of the document.
Try to impress on the young adolescent that reading is a source of information. You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20
Cancer is traditionally termed a ‘mute’ sign because it often indicates a poor ability to express oneself with verbal eloquence.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Robert H. Schuller
Oh! the Lord help you not to draw back, but to press on, _press on, press on_, never minding the consequences. Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881
My stepmother Jennifer could lock the door, twist the dial to scald, and press on. Excerpt: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
As expected, the Polish playmaker will be hoping to impress on his home ground.
Have each child dip his hand in brown paint on press onto one side of the paper.
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels.
Use your finger to press one nostril closed. The Sun
The customary greeting is to press one's palms together in front of the chest and say ‘namaste’.
Common to Walker's furniture, and probably typical of other Scottish shops in Charleston, is the crown molding of the press on chest, which consists of a bold ovolo molding over a cavetto, and is repeated at the top of the base.
This enabled the commander to press on with the work of rigging the ship, the crossjack, or "crochet" yard being sent up by the aid of the mizzen burton hooked on in front of the top; after which the jack was slung and the trusses fixed on, the spar brought home to the mast, the lifts and braces having been fitted before swaying, as is the case with all the lower yards in men-of-war. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
But like I said, we don't employ this press on every possession.
She continued to place the cool compress on his forehead and dab at his reddened cheeks.
Benedict has used his annual speech to the Rota to impress on its members the indissolubility of marriage and that they should avoid the temptation of granting annulments on a whim. Pope: Marriage is not an absolute right
But it does not, so I will press on with the sweeping generalizations.
No. Much of what is going through the press on the subject of pottery will have its use as promoting the advancement and clearing up the history of fictile art, and will therefore be preserved, while a larger portion will interest only the few who delve into the records of human caprice and whim. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
With the fingers of your other hand, press on the back of the stamp to make the impression.
Here's an interesting one about sneaky civil servants using their access to databases to rat to the press on Lotto winners.
Learning to express oneself well is an important part of education.
To test them, press one with your finger and it should just give under the pressure.
Their honesty and hospitality left an enduring impress on her life.
In either event you must check to see that the jars are sealed, with concave lids, and that they don't "boing" when you press on the top. Toast:
So now I've got a cold compress on it, fresh from the freezer.
A seller will prefer that the buyer's only remedy in respect of defective goods should be the express one granted under the contract.
Lack of the ability to sexually express oneself is often associated with despondency and depression.
With Miami festivals WMC and Ultra hogging the electronic music scene this month, Austin isn't exactly the first place you'd target for a deejayed dance party that can press on til sunrise. Taryn Haight: 10 Electronic Music Acts to Catch at SXSW
This is a genuine reflection of his entire approach which in recent days has evoked lavish praise in the financial press on both sides of the English Channel.
But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
If the person is bleeding, cover the wound with a gauze pad or a thick, clean piece of cloth and press on the wound hard enough to stop the bleeding.
It's one thing to be able to carry on a simple conversation with a limited vocabulary, and quite another to talk and express oneself knowledgeably in the language.
Hence, anyone try to press on the pictures of self-help arts by some ideological sphere will be politics appendant .
Organizers of the strike are determined to press on.
Only, in place of the phrase "negative capability," he would substitute "incapability," and reflect that the poet fails to see absolute beauty because he is not content to leave the sensual behind and press on to absolute reality. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
Faced with the intention of David Milliband to press on and attempt to ratify the first Lisbon Treaty through the House Of Lords today, Wednesday June 18th, Bill Cash made an application to the High Court yesterday that the royal prerogative is being used illegally. EU Treaty
He imported a pizza oven from Naples, employed an elderly Sicilian to knead the dough and, in 1965, opened the first Pizza Express on in Soho.
This clever and engaging play features two people on a train, who, for the most part, express only their inmost thoughts and only at the last make any connection with each other.
Other young hopefuls will be hoping to impress on their three - match tour.
I felt they were both trying to impress on me that they were my friends and were going to look after me.
Lightly brush both sides of the tofu with the hoisin mixture and press one side into the chia seeds. Times, Sunday Times
We were engulfed by the sudden darkness, and I leaned out the window to press on a slightly indented part of the wall - a button for the secret underground compartment.
He went to place the compress on her head again and she evaded him.
The DEA and the Justice Department put a full-court press on the drug barons.
So press on with enthusiasm as long as you do not impede the progress of others. The Sun
If you handle a consumer product for a manufacturer you deal with members of the press on an hour to hour basis.
Such new certificate shall express on its face that it is held as collateral security, and the name of the pledgor shall be stated thereon, who alone shall be liable as a stockholder, and entitled to vote thereon. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Conducting the “discriminating analysis of the particular question posed” by the claims the plaintiffs press on appeal, Baker, 369 U.S. at 211, we conclude that both raise nonjusticiable political questions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
He felt silence descend and press on him.
Press on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool.
Divide the thyme in four, press on to the cut side of each portion and lay out on a heavy-duty baking tray. Times, Sunday Times
Trying to impress on my brother the importance of personal hygiene was never an easy task.
Learning to express oneself well is an important part of education.
He secured the river transports; he constructed railroads from Boskara right up to the front lines; he established hospitals; we had nurses and doctors and operating equipment; he established depots with food and supplies-all those things so necessary-so that later on, when the time was ripe, the late Lieut. - Gen. Sir Stanley Maude was able, with that force at his back, to make the drive through, re-capture Kut-el-Amara from the Turks, occupy Bagdad, and press on to the west and north. The Importance of the Mesopotamian Campaign to the British Empire
This can throw the spine out of alignment and press on sensitive nerves in your back and legs.
It has long been the must-have fashion accessory for wealthy wives, flashy footballers and those looking to impress on the school run. The Sun
When Tony Womack escaped a full count by singling to center with two outs, I figured Jim Tracy would cue Gagne, but he let Lima press onward against the dangerous Walker.
They were being seen and assessed by him and his team of therapists and prosthetists, who then briefed the press on the care the boys can be given.
No one can tell whether this tiny step towards coalition government will encourage the coalitionists in all parties at Westminster to press on towards a genuine coalition.
The indeterminism made it uncertain whether she would go back to help or press onward.
Such ‘popular passions’ were at least as important as political or military calculations in the determination of the belligerents to press on with the war.
Even when the pace quickened with the stress of the music the gestures still continued to be restrained and hieratic, only when, one by one, the performers detached themselves from the round and knelt before us for the _peseta_ it is customary to press on their foreheads, did one see, by the moisture which made the coin adhere, how quick and violent their movements had been. In Morocco
Tinnitus can be caused by, and be an indicator of, many different auditory or medical conditions ranging from simple impaction of wax against the eardrum to less common, but more serious conditions such as tumours that press on the auditory nerve. Tinnitus: the sound of silence
Donald Proulx (proo) e-mailed The Associated Press on Wednesday to say he had been told not to discuss the matter. BLACK ENTERPRISE
They are, in a word, shams designed to lull users into a false sense of security - a form of sham which we believe you press on us solely as posturing, rather than out of any genuine concern for users.
Press on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool.
Using a press cloth, press one side of the fusible web to the lamé. Fuse another web piece to the grosgrain ribbon.
The most usual plan is to set up the type in long slips the width of the intended page cut of variable length (called 'galley slips,' after the special press on which they are generally printed), each slip containing matter enough for two or three pages.
Mr Simmons tried to impress on me how much easier my life would be if I were better organized.
The sequences from The Mikado in particular impress one with their wit, their biting satire and their musicality.
But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
Kashmirian thinkers may have left an individual impress on either system but they dealt with questions which had already been treated of by others and their contributions, though interesting, do not seem to have touched the foundations of belief or to have inspired popular movements. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
Hence, anyone try to press on the pictures of self-help arts by some ideological sphere will be politics appendant .
I make a great impress on your company.
`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
Press on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool.
Jade dulcimer from afterward death hand me, I at this time although I stand, but body huge portions of weights all press on jade dulcimer.
Driver Keen is out to impress on his BTCC debut after strong performances in international Formula 3000 and sportscars.
Turn of belt pulley to regulate graduated dial and press on the one button to change needle gauge.
Do not press on the spine or the shoulder blade itself.
She keeps trying to impress on me how she doesn't fancy him but does she protest too much?
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Robert H. Schuller
_We are this week compelled to go to press one day earlier than usual; we have to request the indulgence of our correspondents for the omission of our usual_ LIST OF REPLIES RECEIVED, _and for not replying until next week to several inquiries which have been addressed to us_. Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
HUNDREDS of nurseries fear closure if ministers press on with plans to double free childcare to 30 hours, a survey found. The Sun
The unzoned exurban dissonance goes on like this kilometer after kilometer on west coast expressway 15, making me press on the accelerator and watch out for police speed cameras. Seoul
Doria divers have been swept off the anchorline used to reach the wreck or misjudged their breathing gas supply and run out or failed to properly decompress on the ascent.
She keeps trying to impress on me how she doesn't fancy him but does she protest too much?
Age, while bestowing on this garment a patine worthy of a Renaissance bronze, had deprived it of whatever curves the wearer's pre-Raphaelite figure had once been able to impress on it; but this stiffness of outline gave it an air of sacerdotal state which seemed to emphasize the importance of the occasion. Bunner Sisters
The locals also wanted to impress on public representatives the importance of rerouting the proposed sewerage scheme.
After all, it would seem ‘a terrible thing’ to express one's creed against others, in this case the Arians.
Learning to express oneself well is an important part of education.
But Mercy's tame wind let them press on, breasting the current, until they emerged at last into an open expanse of saltmarsh, a green and living everglade that seemed to stretch on forever into the misted west. The Golden Torc
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels.
I'd like to press on right now, as we have to vacate the room at noon tomorrow.
Indeed, may I express once again our great admiration for the skill and courage of those involved in our emergency services?
Meanwhile, the pensioners expressed a note of gratitude for the new increases offered, and promptly promised to press on with their demands for the restoration of the link between pensions and earnings.
What better way to express one's rights as a consumer than to purchase a useless item?
This can throw the spine out of alignment and press on sensitive nerves in your back and legs.
The idea is known as orthokeratology; the lenses press on the cornea and temporarily flatten it, thus redirecting light rays closer to the retina.
We must press on with the work if we are to finish it in time.
Gently but firmly press on the tuile to shape it to the cup.
It is extremely ill-bred, though extremely common, to press one to eat of anything.
These bite-sized essays, each a mere fifteen or twenty pages long, often impress one as serious philosophical achievements even when they are read piecemeal, as they were written.
This does not deny your suggestion that this is casteism but press on with asking what kind of casteism is it? Kafila
Assertiveness emphasizes self-confidence and a persistent determination to express oneself or one's opinions.
They press on to be as godlike in behaviour and conduct as they can.
This may lead to lower abdominal discomfort or backache, or may press on the bladder causing symptoms such as needing to pass urine more often than normal.
We have to know there is a firm consensus of opinion behind us, and would not press on ahead without it.
This is frightening and shameful but I press on and ask if they saw who was driving the snowplow. Snowdick
If you hear a beep when you press one of these arrow keys then there are no more records to be found.
If water beads up around your fingertip when you press on the paper towel, the towel is too wet.
Drivers' expressions harden and freeze as ruts deepen, mud thickens and the suspicion dawns that 4WD may not after all be the complete antidote to the laws of gravity and friction, but still they press on.
PRESIDENT BALFOUR: Your Honour, may I express on behalf of all within the sound of our voice our thanks for this analysis of the Housing Problem, for the suggestion, of remedies, and for the suggestion of the collateral advantages which would accrue from the application of them. Civilization and the Cave Man
Place a cold compress on the forehead. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
Organised for the 19th year, the fair aims to impress on the young the need for judicious use of water.
Press one number, zero through nine, on each of ten squares and arrange the letters on each square as shown in the photo.
To overcome this poor responsiveness, recombinant poxvirus vectors, including vaccinia, fowlpox and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), can be genetically engineered to express one or more tumor-associated antigens to greatly enhance the immune system's ability to recognize and destroy cancer cells bearing any of the targeted antigens. ® and CV-301 are prime-boost vaccines, sequentially combining two different poxviruses (vaccinia and fowlpox). Reuters: Press Release

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