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Hard pressed by his father, John told the truth in spite of his wife's warnings.

Orange offers a life to be lived to the full, too often not the safe and reliable pair of hands the hard pressed coach yearns for.

Even the most cohesive and determined government would be hard-pressed to get out of this kind of fiscal mess.

Although her husband has promised again and again to be faithful to her, Mary is still hard pressed to let her defenses down.

The blue ink scratched its way across the paper, as if hard pressed to recall the individual shapes of letters.

It was a wonderful chat, but we'll be hard pressed to meet again as this was a chance encounter at both of our non-regular hour.

The business owners would be hard pressed to argue they honestly believed they were entitled to such a huge sum of money, she said.

With markets in Europe and the U. S likely to grow slowly over the next few years, China will be hard-pressed to sustain that pace.

At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, something hard pressed against my tongue. I spat it out. It was a tooth.

Though hard pressed from fighting on various fronts, the British sent some Corvettes to help the American situation.

Syndicating sales has several advantages for a hard-pressed debt manager. To start with, it clears up the clutter.

The result has been a Gordian knot of preconditions for resuming talks that even the most ardent expert would be hard-pressed to figure out.

Like many hard-pressed city school systems, New York's was not equipped to handle students who did not fit the white.

For a time you will be hard pressed to keep up with it, which is why we ask you to keep an open mind.

100m a year. For hard-pressed airlines running on razor-thin margins, that really would be astronomical.

For a parent, and finally mother to understand, life is really good difficult, this hard pressed we feel breath.

A year ago most non-specialists would probably have been hard-pressed to explain what a sovereign wealth fund was.

With this sum, she had to cover her remaining living expenses. She was hard-pressed to make ends meet.

Although negotiators are optimistic, the details are complex enough that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.

I have so much to do today and I'm hard pressed to get it all done before noon!

If you are only putting achievements on your resume, you are going to be hard-pressed to fill a whole page.

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.

"Though we weren't practicing pristine Islam, " he says, "you'd be pretty hard-pressed to say that we didn't think we were Muslims. "

At the moment, we are hard pressed to find negative aspects to the quarter, only a bunch of interesting positives.

Most users would be hard-pressed to clear their HTTP authentication credentials for a site by any means other than logging out.

But even a strong groundswell of sympathy around the world will be hard pressed to keep Japan's food flag flying high.

With only a single specimen he was hard pressed to prove it was a new species, so the fish remained, unnamed, on his desk for 25 years.

But they may also be hard pressed to maintain prices as publishers try to lure early adopters and compete with free Web offerings.

I would be hard pressed to recall any couple who presented for marital psychotherapy with a healthy sex life.

Schiller attended French immersion in elementary school but admits she would be hard-pressed to hold down a conversation now.

Put ten Chinese in a room, goes an old joke, and you would be hard pressed to get them to speak .

I told him how hard pressed we were and asked him where, in the circumstances, I could find a gift for him.

They would have been hard pressed not to, with near-zero interest rates and trillions of dollars of stimulus spending.

And, while he's not really the president, most people are hard pressed to tell them apart.

Wild animals are often killed illegally for bush meat. The shacks by the flower farms sell impala meat to the hard-pressed workers.

With orders from all over, local farm produce companies say rail capacity is hard-pressed to meet demand.

Once you start looking around, you will be hard pressed to stop buying authentic accessories for your country home.

In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to do much in the Ajax and JavaScript worlds without using the DOM to at least some degree.

With his wife in poor health and a new baby to care for, my brother is rather hard pressed to meet all his expenses.

Due to the strength of this year's fiscal stimulus, though, such outlays will be hard-pressed to carry GDP forward in 2010.

Hard-pressed parents should not think they are the only ones doling out money to their children: taxpayers foot a hefty bill too.

Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.

But some think companies are just as hard pressed as job seekers in the current economy.

By lowering the funding costs of the two agencies, the rescue should also bring down mortgage rates for hard-pressed householders.

Nor are hard-pressed migrants the only element in Catholic London's rich diversity.

For[ a] I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Without our friends, we would be hard pressed to get through the tough times and celebrate the good ones.

If that works, the resulting mixture may provide a new set of tools for the hard-pressed business manager.

Yet remittances are an efficient, market-driven means of pushing money towards people who are hard-pressed .

But environmentalists will cheer that, at last, there may be some respite for the world's dwindling resources and hard-pressed ecosystems.

You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.

without aligning with the natural world, one will be hard pressed to enter the new dream as the new dream is a natural world phenomenon.

Most of us would be hard-pressed to locate Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, or Guangdong on a map.

We got off to a bad start. They worked hard, pressed hard and played with great enthusiasm.

Anyone who picks up this novel and read the first paragraph, will find it's hard pressed to put it down.

Analysts said European officials will be hard-pressed to reverse the selling without a concrete plan to support Italy.

In such circumstances, the recent fall in the price of oil (and food) should be a boon for hard-pressed consumers.

Among middle-class families, one would be hard-pressed to find an investment portfolio without HSBC shares.

But Syria's land is hard-pressed to meet demand, let alone provide for a strategic reserve.

Most of the rest consisted either of aid to distressed families or aid to hard-pressed state and local governments.

humanitarian assistance to North Korea's hard-pressed people should continue, but monitored by UN agencies, as other governments insist.

In fact most Christians today would be hard-pressed to name a handful of the 613 commandments that form the backbone of the Torah.

The bank was hard pressed for funds.

As in Indonesia, some Taiwanese fear they will be hard-pressed to compete with a flood of cheap Chinese products.

Syndicating sales has several advantages for a hard-pressed debt manager.

When consumers are constrained, so is hiring, because without customers, employers are hard pressed to retain workers or make new hires.

Ever helped people spend be hard pressed for money because of it again, everybody simple appellation it " be hungry is careless " .

In fact, we are hard pressed for a good working definition for life in the cosmic context.

Hence, if you wanted to find a shining example of the old order, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Silicon Valley.

Fall on the country more then actually recumbent the big be hard pressed for money that it spent that dreariness .

But that is a dangerous game; they may be hard-pressed to de-escalate future crises of a more serious nature.

Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy: workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.

Although the following may not be an exhaustive list, my team has been hard pressed to come up with additions.

We come to know things that we'd be hard pressed to say how we learned it.

It should also deregulate the agricultural sector, which could create new jobs and businesses in hard-pressed rural Japan.

Bigger harvests will, in turn, moderate the price rises, giving belated relief to hard-pressed consumers.

Knowing she'd be hard pressed to defend the Imperial capital world, Isard left an insidious gift to the New Republic invaders.

Whoever might lead the network would be hard pressed to fill bin Laden's role.

Much concrete will now be needed in the northeastern prefectures, providing a boost to hard-pressed contractors.

But I felt rather hard pressed, for the time she ventured to seek my help was when I was most busy.

Today, a visitor would be hard pressed to find evidence of the spill.

Now it wants the blue helmets to help relieve its 7, 000 hard-pressed AU peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur.

That's a big concern to government officials, who will be hard-pressed to cope with a growing army of newly unemployed migrant workers.

I'd be hard pressed to say which means the most to me.

Our enemy seems hard-pressed to construct a new base in a hurry after losing their forward base.

Hard-pressed to explain the existence of large crop circles in some fields, some people have blamed the phenomenon on aliens.

The pulmonary edema is to certain extent, arriving the breath hard-pressed comprehensive disease, can also die the person.

As such the Pleiadian race will be hard pressed not to experience their returning karma.

Having recommended TPG's offer in part because of price, Midwest's board of directors will be hard-pressed to turn down a higher bid now.

You'd be hard-pressed to identify their positions on any relevant issue -- whether it is raising the debt ceiling or just the gasoline tax.

But, to date, science has been hard pressed to establish a clear cause-and-effect link between strenuous exercise and heart damage.

Its legendary bloopers are often no worse than the errors made by hard-pressed humans.

Despite promises to the IMF to exercise "expenditure restraint" , in other words, the government will be hard-pressed not to overspend.

But rising unemployment and spare capacity suggest that workers who want higher wages will be hard pressed to win them.

If terrorists blend in with the population, human investigators and computers alike will be hard-pressed to find them.

Waiting, waiting for the hard pressed people. 480 tons of heavy rocket, it seems that everyone in the pressure on the nerve.

The report says governments in conflict affected countries are especially hard pressed to find jobs.

Beijing has handled economic downturns reasonably well, but it will be hard pressed to deal with something bigger than the crash of 2008.

Welcome to the Corona Beach. You would be hard pressed to find a more relaxing, leisurely online destination.

Most people know instantly if something is indeed worthy of being called great content, yet they are hard pressed to define it.

Firstly, they could accept direct acute admissions and thereby reduce demand on the hard-pressed DGH services.

Many hard-pressed millennials are falling back on their parents, as Scott Nicholson has.

Perhaps it is not as sympathetic to hard-pressed oil consumers as King Abdullah claims.

There may be political pressure to redirect money to hard-pressed rural constituencies.

Walk out of a museum at three, and you'll be hard pressed to find a full meal.

Hard-pressed European rivals, spoiling for a fight, may yet find a use for vendor financing again.

Recoveries are hard-pressed to take hold when earnings tread water or fall behind.

NRC has been hard pressed for funds in recent months due to the economic crisis.

The fall in oil prices is a great bounty to hard-pressed consumers.

Most of Iran's fast-expanding but hard-pressed urban middle class dislike Mr Ahmadinejad.

You would be hard pressed to find anybody more willing to joke than her.

Other people, by contrast, may be hard pressed to keep the horrors at bay.

And an uptick in lending would provide some relief to Shanghai's hard-pressed stock market, which is down 15% this year.

I imagine you'd be hard-pressed to find many people willing to have that much blood on their hands.

Retailers are hard-pressed to improve when they have no idea what is wrong.

You would be hard-pressed to explain to me what the government political and economic vision is.

He wrote, "I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better" (Phil. 1: 23) .

The hard-pressed people of Zimbabwe are still waiting for relief.

Hard-pressed euro-zone governments now know that, if the worst comes to the worst, they have somewhere to run.

Hard-pressed truckers and business groups such as the Federation of Small Businesses are complaining.

In short, you'll be hard pressed to find something you can't do or find support for in Struts.

I'm hard pressed to forget my formerly girlfriend.

You'll excuse me going, I'm rather hard pressed tonight.

They were so hard pressed that they couldn't even pay the grocery bill.

In fact, if you closed your eyes, you'd be hard pressed totell the difference from the originals.

If one cannot master the red ray, one will be hard pressed to learn to forgive or master unity as an ascending being.

You'll still be hard-pressed to buy, say, government bonds issued by the Kingdom of Norway (probably the world's safest).

Local governments themselves are hard-pressed for funds because of declining land sales.

You'd be hard-pressed to convince a rational person that gold at $1, 500 per ounce is less risky than gold at $500 per ounce.

So what should the industry's hard-pressed directors do when they need to find senior staff?

Some 95% of them have remained in the Middle East, including 2m in hard-pressed Jordan and Syria.

If you are hard pressed to polish those dancing shoes, how about just listening to some great music instead.

You would be hard pressed to find a better market for a data-driven tool.

I was hard pressed to meet the deadline.

Be hard pressed to do sth.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more beautiful city than Guilin.

Today you would be hard-pressed to find a leading character who smokes in any top 10 box office movie.

Many universities are hard-pressed to keep up with the interest in China.

They sell their hastily refurbished junk to moisture farmers who are hard-pressed to find a better selection elsewhere.

You'd be hard-pressed to buy a baby bottle now that contains bisphenol A.

No problem. Indeed, you'd be hard pressed to find a goal for which a guide doesn't exist.

Tom: You're crazy! You'd be hard-pressed to find a better woman than Sally!

You'd be hard pressed to find a web host who didn't have PHP installed.

But you will be hard pressed to find a cheaper hotel in this area.

You'd be hard pressed to find a modern arena that could be emptied as fast as that.

Search engines are a big help, but they can do only part of the work, and they are hard-pressed to keep up with daily changes.

For hard-pressed Japanese component makers manufacturing in Japan it has been one long competitive struggle.

they were a valuable backup to the hard - pressed regular force and the start of a noble tradition of service

Without additional loans, the company will be hard-pressed not to go bankrupt,

Even hard-pressed to live yourself, you can be when friends ask for help, would still be incumbent upon;

hard-pressed: experiencing great difficulty or distress

Now one can choose to await these coming times and find oneself and one's family hard pressed to survive;

Very often the bandits are hard pressed by gendarmes or carbineers;

the hard-pressed farmers suffering from drought

be hard-pressed to form an effective government

8We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;