force the issue

Yet he wasn't about to force the issue at the moment.

I think he's just trying to force the issue right now.

Others said they would ask, but could not force the issue.

But there was no way he could force the issue.

One way or another he had to force the issue, to see her a last time.

Now the union may have found a way to force the issue.

There was no point in trying to force the issue, at the moment.

I tried to force the issue, and now she's gone.

I've found that's usually better than trying to force the issue.

A key part of his strategy is to force the issue.

If your child doesn't want to talk, don't try to force the issue.

To force the issue one summer, my parents sent me to camp.

A major writing project forced the issue: he needed a computer.

Otherwise, we'd have had no chance to force the issue as we did.

I was trying to force the issue instead of letting the game come to me.

However after this time voters had power to force the issue.

Peer pressure may also force the issue of getting a computer at home.

So it seemed he would have to force the issue, regardless.

Was he going to force the issue and create an embarrassment for everyone?

Pile up enough questions like this, and you sort of force the issue.

The problem may be, some experts said, that women have not forced the issue.

Well, if a man doesn't want to be helped, you can't force the issue.

But she's been too tired, to say the least, to force the issue.

I don't see the change coming voluntarily, so something will have to force the issue.

"You have got to force the issue and make things happen.