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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The clinic provides help for hard-pressed families with young children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
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Finally, I think the tests will simply overburden an already hard-pressed system, and prove unworkable.
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For hard-pressed business people, courses will run during the weekend.
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Funding the pay rise will be more difficult and we fear that hard-pressed services will suffer further.
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Pity, therefore, the hard-pressed driver of the Sauber-Mercedes.
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They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room.