"press" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Last month, the Administration pressed unsuccessfully for a follow-up resolution imposing an arms embargo.
- The city unsuccessfully pressed for the phrase "filtration alternatives" to be included.
- As Vice President, he pressed unsuccessfully to retain tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.
- The Palestinians pressed unsuccessfully for an Arab boycott of the negotiations.
- Meanwhile, the Japanese pressed unsuccessfully for international guarantees of Korean independence.
- The state had unsuccessfully pressed the operator to make the necessary changes, he added, and after a long battle closed it after 11 years of operation.
- He had also pressed unsuccessfully for a "stretch out" of the next phase of the state's four-year income-tax cut.
- Hence the Poplar guardians constantly but unsuccessfully pressed the government to introduce rate equalization.
- Mr. Peres has pressed unsuccessfully for an international conference as the first step toward direct negotiations with Jordan.
- Once when the New York Giants had pressed unsuccessfully for three downs, he said, "What they need now is a gadget play."
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