How To Use Pressing In A Sentence

Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
However, in the intestine, small amounts are converted to the more soluble mercuric salts, which are absorbed, expressing its characteristic toxic effects.
The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.

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It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam? Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
The grass looked like an old worn carpet, faded and ragged; the horizon was pressing against the cliff.
I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.
This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
He spent some time expressing his preference, for tactical reasons, for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument.
A time-lapse camera recorded the entire event, compressing it into a 100-minute film that became a work in its own right.
After a time my brothers began pressing me to travel with them; but I refused saying, “What gained ye by travel voyage that I should gain thereby?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
By rolling down the cover crop in spring instead of mowing it, the cover crop takes longer to decompose and becomes a weed-suppressing mulch.
This is despite the fact that no account has been taken of the potentially depressing impact on economic activity and revenue buoyancy of their tax raising proposals.
It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
Cancer cells look too much like normal cells and most cancers (perhaps virally caused cancers are an exception) are probably expressing only genes that naturally are expressed in human cells.
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
The pressing need of our age is to found a public sphere that would cherish subjectivity, where plural experiences of cultures would correspond to diverse inner lives.
Which had followed with depressing inevitability, as he'd gathered from her Christmas cards and occasional e-mails. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people. Archive 2007-03-01
That for exportation is usually obtained by pressing the copperah in a simple press turned by bullocks. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Given the success in calming down Baghdad's neighborhoods, it would seem unlikely that the Petraeus doctrine will be rolled back ... on the other hand, Casey reportedly has been among those pressing for a quicker withdrawal from Iraq and McChrystal's mission may be to send as many troops home as he can. Who Replaces Petraeus? - Swampland - TIME.com
To the surprise of many, he remains at the helm despite this most depressing afternoon of a season that has become an ongoing ordeal by fire. The Sun
The economic outlook is particularly depressing and confidence is quite low. The Sun
He took pictures by pressing the shutter release with his stronger left thumb. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Magos Herrera has evolved into a global-centric musician, capable of expressing herself in a multiplicity of languages, and vocal settings; from straight-ahead, ballads, scats, and the various dimensions and invention of Afro-Latin music. HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna «
his formula for impressing visitors
Guardastagno (forgetting the lawes of respect and loyall friendship) became overfondly enamoured, expressing the same by such outward meanes, that the Lady her selfe tooke knowledge thereof, and not with any dislike, as it seemed, but rather lovingly entertained; yet she grew not so forgetfull of her honour and estimation, as the other did of faith to his friend. The Decameron
If you have gypsum wallboard, avoid pressing too hard or you will cut through its paper facing.
During performance, most students will need to stand while depressing the damper pedal to access the interior of the piano.
The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
He also commented on the depressing state of affairs concerning preservation of blaxploitation pics, with something like 200 of the 270+ films he cataloged from the era being unavailable (at least without some serious digging).
In manual mode, drivers can go up or down gears without depressing the clutch.
We propose a countermeasure:after confirming the true Bungarus multicinctus, inserting a falsepreventing pill or mark into its oral cavity and packing it in mould pressing plastic package.
So we're going to fight for you against the people who are oppressing you.
According to the Guardian, ‘Ministers have been pressing India behind the scenes to clinch the contract’.
He was summonsed over articles that appeared in Australia and PNG in January expressing concerns over rising crime and the security of his family in PNG.
Ideally your interviews always go smoothly, and after each one you craft an effective note thanking the interviewer for the time, expressing enthusiasm and making it clear you listened closely to the hirer's requirements. How To Follow Up After A Job Interview
The Sana news agency quoted an unnamed official as expressing "regret" that Arab states had "completely ignored facts on the killing and sabotage committed by armed terrorist groups".
The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
The nation's current work force of scientific and technological specialists is unable to supply the pressing demand.
All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
By pressing a button on the bottom, water mixes with quicklime, producing a chemical reaction that heats the coffee.
Hardly enough time for her brain to chum through the most pressing questions in world history. The Sun
They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival.
R. stretched out on the couch while G. and I unloaded the van but she could hardly wait to get into one of the rocking chairs on the front porch where we ate lunch and began the process of decompressing from our long journey.
The system also allows for the car to be started by simply pressing a button on the dash.
Wishing you every happiness when Christmas is near, and expressing appreciation for your cares and concerns during the year.
There were more pressing matters to attend to. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Pressing a button on the rear of the fishing reel disengages the line pickup thus allowing the line to fly off of the spool.
They will kill their prey by wrapping around them and constricting or by pressing them against the burrow walls.
A depressing sign from the league leaders that they are prepared to do anything to try and stay there. The Sun
The irony is, if you had used the element in the first place, pressing the Return key would have actually worked.
Hines MT, Palmer GH, Knowles DP, Alperin DC, et al. (2003) Analysis of anamnestic immune responses in adult horses and priming in neonates induced by a DNA vaccine expressing the PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
While tofu is pressing, whisk together the soy yogurt, oil, garlic, and ginger. New blog category: vegan living! « paper fruit
A love of gardening easily combines with the craft of flower pressing, as one leads naturally into the other.
It becomes as necessary, therefore, in the performance of surgical operations upon the subclavian artery, to fix the clavicle by depressing it, as in Plate 8, as it is to give fixity to the lower maxilla and larynx, in the position of Plate 7, when the carotid is the subject of operation. Surgical Anatomy
All this makes depressing reading for those who put off selling this spring in the hope things would pick up by autumn. Times, Sunday Times
I punched the button again, pressing my finger against the stupid button until the area around my nail was white with pressure.
If you're interested in how I solved the writing problem I mentioned several days ago, look (behind the cut where lies lengthy writing neep in which I blather on about my work in order to avoid other pressing issues) When Good Scenes Go Bad, Redux
The normal way of expressing discontent was engaging in a kind of indirect or passive resistance. America Past and Present
He was entrusted with the task of expressing the aims of the project. Times, Sunday Times
Cold-pressing the fruit peel yields bigarade, the essential oil of the bitter orange; distilling the twigs gives you petitgrain; and the orange blossoms provide you with neroli. Orange Blossoms
Special fabric paint is applied using a stencil brush and then the design is fixed permanently by pressing with an iron.
We found it a deeply depressing experience.
As pressure in the brain increased it began pressing on their eyeballs, distorting their shape. Times, Sunday Times
There is no challenge more pressing nor more fundamental than developing a genuinely sustainable way of life for humankind.
And, given the club's pressing financial problems, barbed comments continue to be fired in the Trust's direction from some fans who believe the money could have been better spent.
You may find comfort expressing your feelings in a tangible or creative way. Times, Sunday Times
United were pressing forward at this stage and on 32 minutes it seemed they were to be rewarded.
He was totally unresponsive to the pressing social and economic needs of the majority of the population.
These filters are normally used to clarify the products of settled grape juice or wine, such as lees after crushing, pressing, and settling, and the residue of finings such as bentonite.
They are pressing us for an answer.
The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
But what of the really pressing question: just how long before we can expect to be chauffeured around in driverless cars? Times, Sunday Times
I got there in the end thanks to the RNIB and Calibre Talking Book Libraries plus a rota of loyal readers, but the fact that none of the books I chose is currently available on UK commercial audio even as a download is depressing. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
They were literally on the verge of pressing the button to produce them in huge numbers. Times, Sunday Times
In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that can produce a quick, powerful high, usually by depressing the central nervous system.
The action of pilocarpine upon the involuntary muscles is caused in the same manner as upon the sudoriferous glands - by impressing the myo-neural receptors.
The American courts for criminal procedure have stuck to a strong tradition of oppressing the fruits of the poisonous trees.
I was pressing my claim for custody of the child.
Ultimately, we need to have a zero tolerance policy and if that means the police pressing charges against any transgressors, then so be it.
Stuffy" -- though one was tempted to think that he shared his fruit not so much from choice but rather because he disliked the hard work that was sure to follow a refusal of the pressing invitation to "go halvers. Their Yesterdays
During the negotiations between the Home Government and the Pretoria Executive that followed the Conference, and especially during the period of Mr. Hofmeyr's active intervention, his most necessary and pressing task was to prevent the Salisbury Cabinet from being "jockeyed" by Boer diplomacy out of the advantageous position which he had then taken up on its behalf. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
The Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science. Manslaughter trial opens against experts for Italy quake
ATM recognizes damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and tells the cell to stop growing by suppressing the protein-synthesizing pathway mTORC1 or orders the cell to consume itself, a process called autophagy," Walker said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
The story was depressingly familiar.
No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense of his original. Early Theories of Translation
Higher rates also have a strong depressing effect on securities prices, as we have seen in the past year.
Still, several Senate committee chairmen and leadership members are pressing for Senate action this year.
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser capable of reducing parasitic capacitance while suppressing power consumption, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided.
From parents' perspective, the most pressing concern might be that the product doesn't sexualize their children, a challenge for houses known for a more revealing silhouette. Branding the Baby
It all sounded depressingly familiar to Janet.
Pressing this button causes an alarm to appear on the radio console.
The death map is grisly and a little depressing. Times, Sunday Times
It is an integral entity which is made up of a manual corrugated pipe or sleeve piston pump and a flow controlling valve. It is suitable for liquid suction, pressing and siphoning.
In the timehonoured tradition of the northern miserabilist, it would be depressing were it not for its sweet centre. Times, Sunday Times
A flow-down ice maker is capable of preventing ice storage detection device from being damaged and suppressing the occurrence of failures.
The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.
In this poem the poet is expressing an anxiety about the modern day church.
Japan's prime minister is expressing what he calls keen remorse and heartfelt apologies for his country's role in World War II. CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2005
It is tempting for trendy writers to portray him as a tool of rich imperialists oppressing the poor convicts.
With your left hand, carefully lower the spangler and clamp the sping-grip around the grommel handle while turning the spangler speed valve to "rapid" with your right, and pressing the oscillator button with your other hand. 'Twas the Day After Christmas
The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
I haven't seen it yet, and don't intend to, because altho' I was a - fan is too strong a word, I was a *fan* of Battle of the Planets and Starblazers and Voltron, but I watched and liked the series when it was running tho' I thought it rather simplistic and corny by comparison to the other shows I mention - I have heard so much that sounds depressing and Othering about it as a liberal woman, that I don't really need to spend any of my scanty budget on seeing CGI and explosions. Proper Credits for Transformers
But the negativeness has become so depressing I have decided to discontinue all television whether it be the news show, debates, articles, blogs or whatever. Obama: Nobody's complained more than the Clintons
He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
As much as any other task an entrepreneur must face, she must deal with these manic highs and depressing lows.
And one sits and listens to the perpetual roar, and watches the unending procession, and feels tiny and fragile before this tremendous force expressing itself in fury and foam and sound. Excerpt From Cruise of the Snark: Surfing in Hawaii
It got depressing after a while, with the realisation that you're completely disposable and not being hired for any skills.
In the past, civil rights groups have criticized the redistricting process for working against immigrant and African-American communities on Long Island, and while lawsuits have sought to address the problem on a case-by-case basis, electoral representation in communities of color will be a pressing issue in the coming weeks. Ted Hesson: Forum: Redistricting and Its Impact on Long Island Communities of Color
I just wish a character who is wise and focused on a world outside her own desires could have joined this most recent blast of bling and couture to leave long-term devotees with any message other than aging is depressing, marriage is depressing, children are depressing, and complaining about all three relentlessly is boring. Shallow Gals
Yes, it is having a depressing effect on the price, but that's the consequence of a requirement of public honesty.
A host of unwelcome thoughts were pressing in on him.
She used to call the javelin happy which he touched, and the reins happy which he was pressing with his hand. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
It's less depressing than watching the news. The Sun
First of all, there's the absurdity inherent in making a touristy tour thing out of something so very serious and depressing.
The answer, he says, was growth-suppressing policies, such as the Smoot-Hawley tariff, cartelization, unionization and, "most important but hardest to measure, FDR's demonization of business. The Disappearing Recovery
And whereas, its decision made, the Assembly passed on to pressing metropolitan business, the impact on the colony itself was volcanic.
In the meantime, there are more pressing matters that ought to be holding their full attention. Times, Sunday Times
She was like a terrier worrying an elk hound, charging in and pressing an attack so fast and furious he had no choice but to defend himself.
The depersonalization was his subtle way of expressing his low opinion of the individual. The Alibi
Grissell, the daughter of trainers Gardie and Diana, had a depressing afternoon at Plumpton on Monday when she had to pull up her horse Downe Payment in a handicap hurdle. Tattenham Corner
As a matter of curiosity, I should like to see the man 'extinguish' himself by stepping forward and telling us in plain English language, had he been a member of the Legislature, would he have voted against the people expressing their opinion upon the subject. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
Scatter the slivers of garlic and the pine kernels on top of the meat mixture, pressing them down a bit with the flat of your hand.
The appearance of Travolta trying to be evil by way of Hugh Hefner and Tony Manero is funny enough, but the addition of some slapstick later in the film lightens, for the moment at least, what is an overbearingly grim and depressing movie. Eric’s Top 10 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever » Scene-Stealers
He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf. Foes
Given that your persona is rough and tough (I gleaned this from your frequent mentions of having been "in the can"), it's not so shocking that you're an action movie fan; but it is surprising that you frequently go to bat for women, picking up on gender issues that many reviewers might miss, especially ones trying to gain a female audience while still impressing adolescent fanboys. Caroline Hagood: On Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!, Movies, and Manhood
Anyhow, it's more than a little depressing how commonplace is Brewer's apparent assumption: that politics have little or nothing to do with morals and values. Television
Such violent protests might have been tolerated in the past because there were no other channels for expressing opinions during the dictatorial regimes.
They also sought to limit the number of apprentices entering their trades, because of the inevitable consequence of depressing wage rates; this has remained a feature of some craft unions to this day.
Now there is a more pressing issue. Times, Sunday Times
The Scottish Executive said it was aware of the problems facing the venison industry and was pressing the EU to lift the ban region by region.
In suppressing the Quebec City protests, Canadian police for the first time used the impact weapon Arwen 37 which fires rubber bullets.
I took tram number 17 from his depressing little scheme in the western sector into the city centre.
This led us to assume that there was a different effect of intrathecal or intravenous ketamine on suppressing facilitation.
Moreover, whereas the frontal view is savage and vehement, this head is gentle and dreamy, even pretty, expressing an entirely different mood.
But at the same time, this administration has a list of just -- of just absolutely absurd complicities in all sorts of issues, including, failing on border security, pressing ahead with SVP, the North American Union. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007
The President vowed on Saturday to hold his besieged capital against rebels pressing hard from the outskirts.
The incomplete squamosals also slope laterally and ventrally away from the parietals, slightly depressing posterior margin of the supratemporal fenestrae.
Shugart was sued by Lerach the first time for supposedly expressing overly optimistic views to shareholders.
This alternately harrowing and touching story of tragedy and hope has been impressing viewers and critics for years, and the prospect of witnessing this true-life horror story on the big screen is cause for excitement.
The different juices - the auto-pressing, the cuvée and the taille - are then collected and poured into either oak or cement measuring vats called 'belons'.
Despite these depressing facts, the problem is manageable. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, the children are naughty too, as one would expect all over the world I guess, yet here I find that children are still children expressing nothing more than an innocent and adventurous mischievousness!
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The homebuilding fund will not address the most pressing issue facing the industry's employers: a critical shortage of skilled workers. Times, Sunday Times
But by that time the acetate pressings are already in circulation, and they are still out there somewhere. LOVE YOU MADLY
Now, a depressing injury and two years of highs, lows and managerial merry-go-rounds later, he contents himself with mere realities.
Buddhist and Hindu doctrine of nonviolence expressing belief in the sacredness of all living creatures.
She says she won't come back to California, nor will she go to France despite a pressing invitation.
And the fake eyelashes you just had to have for the party season are looking like a depressing reminder of money thrown out of a moving vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
The bare statistics make depressing reading. Times, Sunday Times
An alternative unit for expressing blood pressures, which has not been widely adopted in clinical practice, is the SI unit, the pascal or kilopascal One kPa is approximately 7.5 mm Hg.
Mature plants with uncertain identity were preserved by pressing to allow repeated examination by us and others for final identification.
There was something very powerfully depressing about it. Times, Sunday Times
It's also true that they have been oppressing their own people and conducting a campaign of abuse against women that justifies international intervention.
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
Drain in a colander, pressing the leaves to extract all the juice.
The protein blot results for these high-expressing lines are shown in Figure 5B.
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore -- for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down -- expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away -- literally, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His pessimism has the effect of depressing everyone.
In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction. The Fortunes of Nigel
I taught elementary German to a series of chinless wonders, depressing myself as much as them and stuck at it for about two years. THE ENDLESS GAME
When people condemn certain verbified nouns, they're really just expressing an aesthetic preference. Times, Sunday Times
A thalassic mba business school steadied to tsetse calfskin to the mediatory mamilla despicably napoleon and how to use it depressingly. Rational Review
In many countries people are victimised, terrorised, disappeared or tortured, for publicly, or even privately, expressing dissent.
When the jeweller put the ear-rings back in the display, he felt Calvert pressing against his back.
Why is there a sudden clampdown on people expressing their findings or thoughts?
We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
Uses preliminary input digital control system, quick adjustment line pressing roller, matching order for quick change.
Such interest, however, does not provide a morally satisfactory justification for violently repressing the Pullman strike.
She slid closer and gave him a hug, pressing her head into his chest.
The note pressing wheel axle is also provided with a coded disc and an auxiliary coded disc relative pipe.
The normal way of expressing discontent was engaging in a kind of indirect or passive resistance. America Past and Present
Try squats and lunges to boost leg strength or bench pressing weights to boost the upper body. The Sun
These so-called progressive women are more than happy to essentialize gender roles if it means oppressing someone that is not like them but you can rest assured that if it meant that they were forced to perform genderized work i.e. stay home and play good little wife while the husband works, you would hear an uproar. Congratulations to Thomas Beattie In Spite of “The Views” Transphobia
What a strange way of expressing democracy. Times, Sunday Times
Pressing the unheated tool, the heated sheeting, and a substrate together results in cutting and edge sealing of the heated sheeting.
These structures irritate the tendon by putting pressure on it and compressing it.
The loss of a treasured chunk of sovereign territory is not its most pressing concern. Times, Sunday Times
He took a gentle lovebite out of the soft fullness of her breast, then kissed the spot, pressing his lips into her flesh. Adam's Fall
If the positions of cylinder and piston be reversed, the piston pointing vertically upward and the sand "bled" into an orifice in or through it, the void caused by the outflow of this sand would be filled by sand displaced by the piston pressing upward rather than by sand from above. Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910
But when there is no pressing military or colonial imperative, the developed world loses interest in tropical diseases.
The term desertification was coined to convey this drama of pressing and interconnected issues in drylands, but human-induced land degradation extends beyond drylands or forests. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 3
The British effort came unstuck in depressing fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Families mourned for periods of up to one year, with some family members expressing grief by blackening their faces, chests, and hands with charcoal and maintaining an unkempt appearance.
It is also pressing for the lanes for public transport to be segregated from the rest of the traffic on the bridge.
It is also widely held that in addition to having such properties as reference, truth-conditions and truth ” so-called extensional properties ” expressions of natural languages also have intensional properties, in virtue of expressing properties or propositions ” i.e., in virtue of having meanings or senses, where two expressions may have the same reference, truth-conditions or truth value, yet express different properties or propositions (Frege 1892/1997). Mental Representation
It is also the first step in what they call pressing the reset button. CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2009
It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
We propose a countermeasure:after confirming the true Bungarus multicinctus, inserting a falsepreventing pill or mark into its oral cavity and packing it in mould pressing plastic package.
Expressing disagreement is not a discourtesy.
There was no evidence which established a pressing need for change. Times, Sunday Times
I'm afraid I have some pressing business to attend to.

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