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Example sentences for: hard-pressed
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You would be very hard-pressed to find someone who could argue with a straight face, pace Richard Brookhiser on George W. Bush's future prospects, that it's precisely because Jack Welch isn't that smart that he's done such a good job at GE.
The duplication also places extra demands on already hard-pressed single-source national technical intelligence collectors like the National Security Agency.
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.
Not beloved by his people, Milosevic might be hard-pressed to retain power even with the support of his secret police, political cronies, and state-controlled media.
A hard-pressed life naturally tends to blunt speech.