Word: pressing
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referendums, and the council agreed last year that it would not press ahead with an increase...
...Lewis cautioned that he will not press forward with the issue if there is "massive resentment" among the student body...
...Hampshire's press started to give the Crimson trouble in the middle of the second half and its total turnover tally ballooned to 25, but Harvard's defense was equally solid down the stretch...
...also possible that Barak's own party, which has been getting more and more upset with him, will deny him its nomination. Some leading figures are now leaking to the press about Barak being challenged for leadership of the Labor party, possibly by parliamentary speaker Avram Burg, who has the advantage of being known as a religious...
...Yasser Arafat, the election poses what has become a frustrating dilemma for the Palestinian leadership each time Israel goes to the polls - do they restrain Palestinians for fear of stampeding Israeli voters to the right, or do they press on regardless of whether the man they'll ultimately face across the negotiating table is Netanyahu or Barak. But the election also presents Arafat with an opportunity: After all, the Palestinian leader knows the intifada alone will not force Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza, and a return to negotiations is inevitable - and Barak now needs a peace...