Observers were hard pressed to define a reason for weakened results this year.
With a potential upset now very much on the cards, Cardiff pressed for an equaliser but were unable to get their passing game going on a sticky, muddy pitch.
In the late 1990s, teams of researchers at the Harvard school of public health interviewed dozens of people who had wielded a gun for self-defense. (In many cases, the guns were not fired, but were simply brandished.) The researchers pressed for the fullest description of exactly what happened.
Sensing their first lost points since that Merseyside derby, Liverpool pressed for a winner and they were inches away when Suarez struck the bar with a 20-yard free-kick.
But Rangers pressed for a decisive goal and were rewarded when Maurice Edu tapped home to take the aggregate score to 3-3, the Ibrox side moving ahead on away goals.
When Millwall pressed for an equaliser, Ipswich were also effective on the counter-attack: they launched a swift move following a wayward Henry corner, Jack Colback eventually shooting wide from just inside the penalty area.
It was an authority they had exerted from the first whistle and, despite a spell of South Korean pressure in the second half as they pressed for an equaliser, Argentina were thoroughly deserving of the points.
Undeterred, United pressed for an equaliser and their efforts were rewarded almost immediately.
They pressed Eason for information about the family: Were she and her husband having marriage trouble?
Britain and France pressed for war in Libya even though they were incapable of prosecuting it alone.
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Aberdeen pressed hard for an equaliser and Mark Kerr and Mulgrew were frustrated by last-ditch defending by Accies.
Inverness were required to defend desperately in the closing stages as St Mirren pressed hard for the equaliser, but the Paisley side could not make the breakthrough and Terry Butcher's side held out for a precious win.
Calum Elliot and then Suso were sent off the bench for Gary Glen and Ryan Stevenson respectively as Hearts pressed for parity.
When buyers began laying out tens of billions of dollars for companies that make pressed tomatoes and desktop computers, observers were sure quick to herald the resumption of crazy Wall Street dealflow.
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The embassy Americans were eventually freed as a result of painstaking negotiation, a process Mr Vance had pressed for.
But when Democrats in the Senate pressed for a timetable, or at least a commitment to withdrawal, they were buried under Republican accusations of "cut and run" defeatism.
With the CRA, Congress pressed banks to invest in poor communities, but they were reluctant to do so and looked for ways, including traditional grant giving to local nonprofits, to avoid what was arguably a risky financial proposition.
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It's not something you'll necessarily see in the Google Play store, however, as we were told the company intends to license the platform out to various Android OEMs. We pressed CEO Kostas Eleftheriou for more details on possible partnerships, but he remained tight-lipped, only assuring us that talks were in progress.
The plant's leaves were added to the group's collection of about 75 wild coffee samples pressed between wooden racks to preserve them for genetic analysis.
Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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