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Example sentences for: pressing

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In an increasingly interdependent world, many pressing problems that affect Americans can be addressed only through cooperation with other countries.
Between less pressing business--like running the country--members of Congress hunch over 3-foot wide slabs of Formica, working up a sweat dialing as many donors as they can.
The Sunday Mirror, in the serialization of a book by Diana's "close confidante" Simone Simmons, said this week that she had mutilated her body with a fork, wanted to run off to South Africa with a heart surgeon named Hasnat Khan, and voted 250 times against the monarchy during a televised debate about its future by pressing the redial button on her mobile phone.
Prescription drug coverage for the elderly isn't nearly as pressing a need as education and child nutrition.
In some cases, the new emphasis on homeland security has prompted attention to longstanding problems that have suddenly become more pressing.