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• s  facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
  financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices

• What did socialization mean to hard-pressed.
• As a child, she struggled to pick out her own face in school photos, and she is hard-pressed today to describe her mother's features.
• Although Tierney and Sierra have certified 250 trainers through weekend workshops, you might be hard-pressed to find a class at your local gym.

• distressed
• hard put
• in a bad way

News & Articles

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• No Celestial Role Model Here
  The strained relationship of Cepheus and his daughter Andromeda J. Alex Knoll When we look to the night sky for father figures , we’re hard-pressed. There are heroes and rogues, serpents and dragons, birds and beasts, fish and fishermen, harps and chariots. But there is only one father among the constellations, and not a good role model at that. read more
  June 13, 2013 - Bay Weekly
• Workers Use Mobile Devices to Search for Jobs
  Hey, Corporate America, we're going to let you in on a not-so-well-kept secret. We know you're hard-pressed to hire IT workers and other professionals these days.
  June 13, 2013 - Baseline
• The 10 Greatest Traditions in NASCAR
  Any sport with strong regional roots is bound to have its own set of strong traditions. NASCAR is, of course, no exception to this, with its predominantly Southern flavor still shining through even as the sport has expanded, both nationally and internationally. You would be hard-pressed to come up with a NASCAR event that doesn't have at least a few traditions. They may be universal to every ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Jerry Jones in San Antonio Express
  He was the energy, really, that put together half of the league, and then he was the key person in merging the two leagues together,Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that's made a bigger...
• Mitch McConnell in Reuters
  I would be hard-pressed to support additional funding for the TARP without sufficient assurances this money will not be wasted, misspent or simply used for more industry-specific bailouts,Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said.
• LeBron James in ABC Online
  We intend to put tax cuts into the pockets of hard-pressed middle class families in your states. And we intend ...... to start making a down payment on the critical investments that are going to be necessary to sustain long-term economic growth as... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA ABC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory%3Fid%3D6372766&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNECuUOHWJR5Jpw81861osKygmEGVQ Dec 2, 2008 45477 61915 hard The things that the Miami Heat franchise have done to be able to free up (salary) cap space and to be able to put themselves in a position this summer to have all three of us, it was hard to turn down," James said. "Those are two great...