Definition of Pressing

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Definition of Pressing
	Pressing of Press Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. Related Definitions: As, Exacting, Importunate, Necessity, Of, Press, Pressing, Urgent

Pressing Quotations

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
Eric Clapton

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?
Marc Wallice

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
Robert Casey

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
Michael Lewis

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges

Pressing Translations

pressing in Afrikaans is dringend
pressing in Dutch is spoedeisend, brandend, dringend
pressing in Finnish is kiireellinen
pressing in French is pressant
pressing in German is Druck auf
pressing in Norwegian is inntrengende
pressing in Portuguese is pressionar
pressing in Spanish is urgente

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