hard pressed's Usage Examples:

However, Spanish officials hard pressed on the newly formed party to immediately stop ETA(pm)"s actions or to.

The King was hard pressed and the Duke of Alençon supposedly cut an ornament from Henry's crown with a sword blow.

Diathema was the name of a fortress in Gilead to which the Jews fled when hard pressed by Timotheus of Ammon.

Cassius Dio wrote that the Samnites being hard pressed by the Romans caused Pyrrhus to set forth again to come to their assistance.

When he's on screen, Payne demands the attention of the audience, and you're hard pressed to resist his performance.

Indeed, one is hard pressed to find the combination elsewhere in the Baroque repertory.

At the best of times an individual is hard pressed to maintain his rights in the face of constituted authority, no matter how honest or sincere such an authority is in its actions.

De la Rey, also hard pressed by his enemy, dispatched Van Rensburg to accompany President Steyn to Roodewal, De Wet's safe retreat in the northern Free State.

bloom in summer, and the hand of heaven was against us, so that we were hard pressed.

Both men worked well together, but were hard pressed to win any encounter with Sertorius himself.

remember the good work done by the regiment (14th Jat Lancers) when we were hard pressed by the Afghans in the Chardeh valley on the 11th December 1879.

Many elderly residents are hard pressed to care properly for the children for whom they are responsible, leaving.

fraîche or Tomme fraîche is a hard pressed curd, slightly fermented and unsalted based on cow"s milk, traditionally produced in the region of Aubrac and.

Synonyms:

hard put, troubled, distressed, in a bad way,

Antonyms:

untroubled, quiet, unconcerned, euphoric, elated,