The United States has pressed its allies to approve a broad range of possible Serbian targets, including roads, bridges and command posts.

The United States has been pressing its European allies for years to improve their military forces.

Both men have pressed their allies to support their candidates.

The United States has repeatedly pressed its authoritarian allies to compromise and then, once they have started on that slippery slope, to resign.

At the Venice summit conference, therefore, the Administration will be pressing its allies for greater help on both the economic and military fronts.

Washington's half-hearted efforts could be taken more seriously if the Administration pressed its European allies to support economic sanctions.

The Korean War brought some increases, but the Americans were soon pressing their allies to spend still more on armaments.

But according to one Soviet official, China declined, evidently hoping to persuade Mr. Gorbachev to press his Vietnamese allies harder.

We have pressed our allies in Europe and Asia to take on a larger share of responsibility.

Were American planners prepared to endanger the lives of United Nations personnel, to press their allies to be better armed and more resolute?