She has pressed on since, adding a further 11 WTA titles and reaching her highest ranking of No. 2 in 2012, a year when she reached her first grand slam final -- albeit beaten by (who else?) Serena Williams at Wimbledon.

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As soon as she pressed the End button on her cell phone it rang again.

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Baroness Grey-Thompson said the minister had "moved further" on the issue than she expected, but pressed ahead with a vote on her amendment.

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She was complimented on the clarity of her evidence and pressed to recall the names of the four people she had been with.

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She pressed Ms. Hurt to join her on exercise walks and forbade her from snacking on cake and other treats.

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When pressed on the point, she agreed.

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University of Miami instructor Irene Oh is not a specialist in Islam, but demand was so great for an introductory course on the religion, she was pressed into service.

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Company officials pressed her during her interview on how she had kept up her data-modeling ability during her six years away from the specialty.

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What bothered me most about her performance though is that she seemed to fog over at least 3 times when pressed by analysts for details on the quarter.

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Capitalising on the chronic insecurity of Americans in matters of taste, she branded herself the ultimate authority on perfect living, be it making coasters from pressed pansies or whipping up dinner for 20 in half an hour.

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