hard-pushed

I personally think that even he would be hard-pushed to say the coaching team should stay, Carling said.

England launch World Cup 2015 with Daleks and Angel of the North | Robert Kitson 2011

From Gmail and Flickr to Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, you would be hard-pushed to find a consumer or business in the UK that does not rely on at least one cloud-based service.

Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

But Grifols will be hard-pushed to squeeze as much juice from Talecris as Cerberus.

Cerberus's Red-Blooded Returns 2010

I'm sure she'll tell us soon but meanwhile congratulations to William and Helen on such an excellent collaboration because I think we'd be hard-pushed to write a joint shopping list here without a bit of a conflagration, so 630 pages is no mean feat.

Dark Hearts of Chicago 2007

Several moments of great pathos stick in my mind, you will be hard-pushed to read a more heart-rending account of the hopelessness of heroine addiction for a start ... unless of course you've read Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn in which case you'll be able to make evidence-based comparisons between the privileged and the down-and-out approaches.

Self Help 2007

Such cynicism has always been readily apparent when it comes to releasing prisoners from the general population, but for the first trial by Military Commission to be undermined in such a manner appeared to take hypocrisy to a new level, even though a trial, had it proceeded, would have been hard-pushed to present Hicks as a terrorist.

Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials 2009

I'm hard-pushed to think of a single memorable Springsteen riff.

"I love Bruce for the simple reason he is, from all appearances, a social phobe and a depressive." Ann Althouse 2009

I work in the NHS trenches on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and by Thursday morning I'm hard-pushed to get out of bed once the tea, the toast and the post is conveyed to me.

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I'm hard-pushed to think of a single memorable Springsteen riff.

"I love Bruce for the simple reason he is, from all appearances, a social phobe and a depressive." Ann Althouse 2009

Several moments of great pathos stick in my mind, you will be hard-pushed to read a more heart-rending account of the hopelessness of heroine addiction for a start ... unless of course you've read Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn in which case you'll be able to make evidence-based comparisons between the privileged and the down-and-out approaches.

Self Help 2007