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We should have pressed on when 12-3 up early in the second half.

We didn't know a lot about them. We saw them earlier in the year. They pressed a lot. We came out thinking they were going to press. They came out and played a 1-2-2 (zone). Chris knocked down that 3-pointer early. That set the tone for us. I think we got some easy looks out of our zone offense. That got them out of their zone defense late in the first quarter. Then, our man offense worked really good.

We did see a lot of teams that pressed this year, and our guards have improved their decision-making under pressure as a result of that. I think that experience will help (the guards) a lot.

We had so many opportunities today. And we just pressed at the plate. There were three or four times where we could have broken the game open.

Eric Gordon was absolutely phenomenal tonight. I'd be hard pressed to believe there's a better guard in the country.

During the past year, he'd pressed Woodward to tell him the name, arguing that the current editor should know the identity of our source. Woodward had resisted.

The toughest thing is that, you know, we're a little bit lean on our marketing dollars, and we're pressed on our expense dollars across the board in order to run the business, so we've become a little bit of the world's best-kept secret.

It would be hard pressed to say that the State of the Union is as crucial as it is often said it is.

These elections are unique, because for the first time since independence they present a genuine choice in the most accurate sense of this word, ... No one was pressed or told how to vote.

The second half would have been a good night to play against anybody. Every time you made a change ... You pressed us? We dunked it. You zoned us? We 3-pointed it.

I wanted our team to be pressed some this year. We have some tough stretches in our schedule this year, but I think we can still pull out 15 to 20 games this year.

pressed Mr. Libby to discuss additional information that was in the more detailed, classified version of the estimate.

Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills, among others, have begun to trim the loads of salt, sugar and fat in many products.

Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so. That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.

So what we're working on with these models is individual forecasts of particular storms. That would be what we're really pressed to look at now.

The moment we pulled up to the center in our big bus the kids were pressed against the window glass. Look, there they are, there they are.

A principal in Oregon was having problems with some girls in the school. The girls had just started to wear lipstick and were pressing their lips against the mirror. After a few weeks, when the culprits were caught, the principal wanted to teach them a lesson, so the custodian showed them what he had to do to clean the lipstick. He dipped the sponge into the toilet and proceeded to wipe the mirror. Needless to say, the girls never pressed their lips against that mirror again.

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

You're going to be hard pressed to find somebody who hasn't heard the name Padilla and read somewhere that he was the supposed dirty bomber. Padilla is the government's worst nightmare as far as litigation.

You're going to be hard pressed to find an area that has temperatures cooler than normal.

This is one of those collections where one would be hard pressed to find a bad story. Moore is one of those people whose every word is chosen carefully to move the story forward just a little bit -- so that as you're reading, you get caught up in the lives of her characters.

They set the tempo pretty much all game. They pressed us and took us out of our game and we became nervous and started to panic. We're a young team and we're learning and always trying to get better.

This happened in the previous administration and the law enforcement agencies have pressed it and pursued it aggressively with our full support, ... Late Edition Primetime.

They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.

All of Florida is doing well. Its economy is outperforming the nation by the largest margin in recent memory. You'd be hard pressed to find a weak area anywhere in the state.

Although I've never pressed sexual harassment charges against him, I guess a lot of it comes from the fact that you can't stand up to somebody who determines whether or not you are on the team.

The young man then ran into the house and pressed the panic button. Meanwhile, shots were fired and the woman was hit twice in the chest. She died shortly afterwards.

They have five solid guys. But they're not too deep after that. And we pressed the whole game.

They got out on our shooters, pressed them and didn't give us easy looks all game. They really took away our outside game, and what (Fields) did more than anything else was push our offense out farther than where we wanted to start it. That made a difference.

This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say that there was no machine more important than the car in the last 100 years. Nothing has been more influential in how we live, how we work, what's worked itself into our songs, into our mythology. The idea of a road trip is very much in everyone's life, and this is the first road trip.

They probably could have pressed more in the first semester, but on the road, you just tend to get conservative sometimes. As I've had time to look back over the first semester during the break, if there's something I would go back and change we'd play a more aggressive style of basketball even though we played so many road games.

They pressed us very well. We just didn't keep our composure.

They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.

They pressed us quite a bit and they are a physical team. The refs were calling it tight, so it worked well for us. We couldn't hit the open shots.

They pressed us and kind of took us out of our comfort zone.

They pressed in the first half, too. We were just more decisive of what we were doing. There wasn't the miscommunication and the confusion. We were getting the ball up quick, and our big guys were shooting a very high percentage. The press wasn't harder in the second half; we made it harder. A lot of people say that we're a young team and that we have to grow. But that time is over. We all have to step up.

They pressed in the first half. The press wasn't harder in the second half; we made it harder.

As National Guardsmen, these soldiers in many, many cases have come from small businesses, have come from work environments that have literally hung on by their fingernails until these soldiers have returned. And so they are not being pressed into service,

It's just a matter of personal preference. Some people like strawberry ice cream and some people like vanilla. If you put a gun to my head, I'd be hard pressed to pick one over the other.

It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to be the hiss of the serpent, to drown them in perdition. It was just no God.

It was a tough game. And we pressed for 36 minutes. In the fourth game in five nights, to show commitment to winning a game we needed to have, the guys showed a lot of heart and character.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

It's not the pristine world that you see on Star Trek, where you see the neatly pressed uniforms, ... What we have is perhaps, from a storage and organization standpoint, is well-managed chaos.

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

It's been a very warm winter in the U.S., so prices are pressed to fall as inventories build and demand slows down. I agree that growth in production capacity this year will be a bit higher than demand growth.

That's the best we've pressed in a while.

That is my preference. But you never know how much these freshmen will be pressed into action.

Not every tournament gets Tiger Woods. Could the field be stronger? Yes. It can always be better. But you would be hard pressed to find any place prettier than Monterey Peninsula by far.

It took us a while to get rolling, but after halftime we pressed it a little and got some big plays. Defensively, we did a very nice job. We hoped we could shut down their running game and get some pressure on the quarterback.

It was good to go against a different style than what we've been seeing. They had good size, but the big key for us was that we dominated the glass. They pressed us whether they made it or missed it, and we did a good job being aggressive through their press.

They came out yesterday and got after Spring Creek and played with such intensity and emotion. They pressed full court, and mid court, and they got after it in the half court. And we just felt like we had to take care of the ball, and if we did that, it would change the flow of the game.

They ate us up in the first quarter with their pressing. (Will Ervin) had a lot of offensive rebounds. They just pressed us and wore us out in the first half. Copiah is a good team. They're quick and play the passing lanes well.

They asked me once my thoughts about infinity, and I told em with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list of things to think about. It could be time on an ego-trip, for all I know. After all, when youre pressed for time, infinity may as well not be there.

They came out and pressed us and generally teams that press us allow to get ourselves going. And this was their third game in five days so it made it very difficult for them to stay with us.

It was just the way the puck bounced. We were consistent and pressed them well. It really could have gone either way.

(Sobolewski) had a rough camp, might have pressed a little bit. ... I told him he could get called up at any time. He needs to quit pressing and get back to doing the things he does well.

The kids played an outstanding game. They looked sharp all game long. We did a great job of putting pressure on their ball handlers. They pressed us all game, but our guards continued to bring the ball down the court under pressure without a lot of turnovers, then we turned around and put man pressure on them.

I'm not pressed to run him. He doesn't need to run. He's fresh and he's a three-year-old at the beginning of the year, and it's a long year.

I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.

If the waitress shows up and doesn't have an exit line, that isn't true to life - I'm hard pressed to think of a waitress who just walks away.

In the first half I thought he pressed too much, and in the second half he kind of let the game come to him a little bit.

Instead of using his position for revenge and for real gain, he decided to forgive those who had pressed him beforehand and take care of the country.

In order to win the Santa Anita Derby, we would have really had to pressed Brother Derek hard. Brother Derek is a very nice horse. I think it was a good race for Point Determined. He could have been a little closer, but he finally kicked in at the end. He got beat 3 1/2 lengths by the best three-year-old, and it gives you something to work with. He finished real strong, and he's not one-dimensional, which would give him a little advantage if there is a real heavy pace in the Derby .

I pressed Information Services for a couple of years to get wireless service here.

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

In the regular season, we hardly faced anybody that pressed us. Valley Christian did it to us the first game of the year. I told the girls in the first quarter we had to weather that storm.

I realize they said we took advantage of all these poor people, pressed all these gifts on them, ... It's terrible, ain't it? We'll wait to see how that works out.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Howard Lake pressed hard and shot well. We have to improve on handling pressure up front.

I don't know how to explain it. We might have pressed a little bit.

I don't know if I had any really bad plays, ... In the first half there probably were about two plays I got pressed back. Once he hit Brett. Then at the end of the game they were all over the place. Obviously, there's things I can work on.

Honestly, we just want to get better whoever we play. We improved in some areas (Thursday night). We never press and we pressed tonight. (But) Jason does a nice job and I think they're on the right path.

He's another kid who's coming out this year who has a lot of ability but not a lot of experience. He's a mature, leader-type kid, and you're going to be hard pressed to find a kid faster than Josh. He's in center field and he'll pitch some too. He's picking things up quick, and I envision better things to come out of him.

If Delphi and its union collective bargain group have negotiate something that is represented to the judge by Delphi and the union, who are actually the parties involved, that is acceptable to them and is in the best interest of Delphi getting out of Chapter Eleven and rehabilitating itself, the judge is going to be hard pressed to not accept that.

He's more confident now, ... He's not a hard thrower, and he was surrounded by hard-throwing guys in the minors. I think he probably pressed a little bit, but he's found a place as a sinkerball-slider-changeup guy.

I don't mind hearing new stuff if the new stuff is good. But if it's not good, then I just want to hear the old stuff. John Fogerty is going to be very hard pressed to write any more songs that are as good as 'Fortunate Son' and 'Green River' and 'Old Man Down The Road.' He's a hard act to follow. He's trying to follow himself.

He pressed in and I stayed tight just trying to keep my hands up. I caught him with a right and that was it.

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

You'd be hard pressed to find any governor in the U.S. who's been more focused on delivering real results for his constituents and the people he serves, ... We will all be anxiously awaiting to find out what he decides to do in 2006 and beyond.

You'd be hard pressed to find another company that serves-up that many API calls.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more supportive university.

You'd be hard pressed to do it any other way. They're all foreign operators.

Akron played on a higher level tonight. They play well together and complement each other well. They got out and pressed us. They work really hard on defense. They make shots very difficult.

The difference in the game was that we pressed in the second half.

You would be hard pressed to read this case to say that innovators will have to design their tech differently. I think the court was pretty clear in stating that the technological design is not a factor in determining inducement.

All we had was the delayed outcry of an 8-year-old boy. We told the police to continue investigating. If police thought this was such a great case, they could have pressed charges on their own.

The first thing you look at are wins and losses and how a candidate affected a program. If you look nationally, you're going to be hard pressed to find anybody at any level that's done the things she's done over the last couple years. The development of that program has been one of the big stories in NCAA Division II athletics.

The fingers were pressed around my waist and then by leverage, they lifted me up into the air, and all the close ups were done that way.

The community wants to have more confidence in what we're doing. It's only fair. An enrollment projection study is essential. I'd be hard pressed to make a decision about this study without that information because we've been talking about this for a long time.

Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies?and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:I would be consumed in that overwhelming existenceFor beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.