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Example sentences for: hard-pressed

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The subtext is that this may be the only real-income increase hard-pressed workers will get.
Even if the funding mechanism is upheld, legal-services groups will be hard-pressed to meet their needs because of low interest rates, according to the American Bar Association.
Reference-style cookbooks, such as Fannie Farmer, range fairly broadly over the American basics, but if you want to get higher-end than that, you're hard-pressed to find anything but books devoted to individual cuisines.
Charles Stewart Parnell, an Irish member of parliament, took up the cause, and the Land Acts, which enabled hard-pressed tenants to buy their land, were passed.
While the trial was going on, in fact, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single reporter covering it who thought that Microsoft was going to win.