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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.
It's hard pressed to find a better American role model than Teddy Roosevelt.
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.
I'll take a carb any day of the week, but if I'm being pressed, then I'm sort of into the standard bagel.
I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.
I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
There's a common misconception that if I uploaded a 20-minute video that I just pressed 'record' and put it online. It's not that at all.
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
I'm a huge fan of MAC's sheer pressed powder because it feels virtually weightless. I can actually wear it to the gym and not clog my pores.
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist.
My mum had always pressed on me to continue my education, and it was just the volatility of sport in terms of not being able to control the result.
Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.
When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.
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.
Style advice? Always wear clothes... that are... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside.
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.
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.
I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.
If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.