By these recent successes, we have had pressed more closely upon us the question of reconstruction.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This metal form is chemically treated before being covered with ink and then pressed onto paper.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Faulkner says he is a person with the depth of pressed metal.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

After sod is in place, it needs to be pressed down firmly.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

The paper is smoothed and pressed to remove trapped air.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It is then pressed on a piece of paper.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

At one time, the president who had retreated and retreated until he was pressed against the wall, could only be secured by a number of gentlemen forming round him and making a kind of barrier of their own bodies.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Clinton repeatedly pressed the issue during her tour of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus, which concluded in Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Errors by doctors who are either too pressed for time or inadequately funded are also a growing problem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The official said more than one leader pressed Mr.Obama to end the decades-old embargo of Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

U.S.officials pressed for rules requiring banks to keep larger reserves to cope with bad loans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

House of Representatives as early as Friday, the unusual multi-year plan is aimed assuring a dependable flow of Washington support to the economically hard-pressed Pakistani government.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The news agency has pressed the U.S.military to conduct a full investigation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

But Mr.Abhisit, in recent media comments, says he will not be pressed to take the country to elections at present but is willing to hold talks with protest leaders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Emergency responders have been hard-pressed to reach those in need.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Protestors,such as this man, pressed the government to resign.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

The U.S.position on developments in Pakistan was a major topic at Wednesday's State Department briefing, where reporters pressed spokesman Robert Wood about Washington's view of Thursday's planned demonstration and the government crackdown.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Appearing before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Middle East, Assistant Secretary Feltman was pressed by Democrats and Republicans about Obama administration support generally for Iranian reform advocates, and specifically about funding decisions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Other bystanders say they remain fearful if Thailand was pressed to elections and pro-Thaksin parties won it may do little to end the cycle of political tensions that have engulfed the country since late 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

With the impasse unlikely to be resolved before the end of this month, when U.S.troops will drop to their lowest levels in Iraq since the war began in 2003, the U.N.Security Council pressed the legislators to work through their differences in "the national interest" and form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04