6 sentences with “pressing”

His voice had a jovial but pressing tone. We don't have much time ahead of us.

But Mr. Fitweiler had been slyly pressing every button on the desk, and the office began to fill with F&S employees.

By then, however, German armies were pressing steadily into Russian territory, and tens of thousands of Russian troops were deserting to return to their home towns.

Simultaneously, the Avars and Bulgars, steppe peoples related to the Huns, were pressing on Byzantine territory from the north, and piracy was spreading across the Mediterranean.

Before the birth of science, the hands were used for rubbing, pressing or patting where it hurt. Without thinking too much about it, each people incorporated this technique as a therapy for healing or prevention of illness.

Did the Norwegian Nobel Institute make a colossal mistake... again? And in this 90th anniversary year of the Nobel Prizes, the most pressing question has to be: will the institute make another crass mistake in October, when the winner of the 1991 prize will be announced?