Synonym: compelling, crucial, driving, urgent. Similar words: distressing, processing, impression, expression, impressive, depression, oppression, suppression. Meaning: ['presɪŋ] n. 1. the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure 2. a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press. adj. compelling immediate action.
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121. The clay needs to be quite wet because the act of pressing and forming the clay tends to dry it.
122. Solving the problem A pressing need in reforming medical education is to redress the imbalance between teaching, research, and administration.
123. He dashed across the garden and pounced upon the garden gate, pressing the latch with his big feet.
124. He knew she was nervous and that this reporter was pressing the superintendent on the most delicate areas of the investigation.
125. Pressing for a huge tax cut and insisting on his plans for a national missile defence fit this picture.
126. George tells the story of a patient named Tom with a large tumor pressing on the inner sides of both frontal lobes.
127. New and pressing concerns of geologists are conservation and environmental protection.
128. Firstly, fundholding practices may find their obligation to buy community care services a disincentive from pressing for early discharge.
129. Instead of pressing the spacebar anywhere between the first and last characters of the text, press the Home spacebar.
130. There is no contradiction between paying tribute to those specialist services in London and pressing ahead with the reforms.
131. The procurator-fiscal insisted on pressing the more serious charge of killing some one by dangerous driving, while being drunk.
132. Dark mosquito shadows across the hilltops, rotor blades beating the air, stirring the ground, pressing down.
133. Breathe slowly and rhythmically, pressing the tip of your tongue against the back of your upper front teeth.
134. Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church.
135. But in pressing Dicey's theory into the service of a tradition his thought was transposed into a crude form.
136. Pressing heavily on the pedals, the bicycle would then do what is not required, namely change down.
137. Special fabric paint is applied using a stencil brush and then the design is fixed permanently by pressing with an iron.
138. It is pressing for companies to be required by law to disclose details of trade effluents.
139. Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many,(http://sentencedict.com/pressing.html) pressing problems.
140. Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
141. Meanwhile, we are pressing for IMF teams already in Moscow and elsewhere to start preparing the ground.
142. Placing the books or presses in an airing cupboard will speed up the pressing process slightly without damaging the flowers.
143. The house builders have no pressing need to increase sales as they are making good money as things are.
144. In the absence of pressing problems he improvises his activities, working the case he wants to work.
145. The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement.
146. But when there is no pressing military or colonial imperative, the developed world loses interest in tropical diseases.
147. He found himself moving forward once more, the wind still pressing against his shoulders, whipping his face with rain icicles.
148. About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change.
149. The only comfortable position was standing up because then the fluid drained away and stopped pressing against his lungs.
150. Appalled, I fought against him, pressing myself back, making my body leaden.
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