hard-pushed

You would be hard-pushed to come across anyone with a bad word against him.

It was a trying moment for the already hard-pushed little man.

Today I would be hard-pushed to find a medium of comparable quality.

There is no way to do this but to earn their respect and to remember that they, too, can be hard-pushed.

You would be hard-pushed to find a more thriving local community than the Borough.

They all had some sort of strategy, even Michelle, though she would have been hard-pushed to define what it was.

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

"You'd be hard-pushed to find a health organization that doesn't support minimum pricing," she said.

Not enough of us grow arctotis.You'd be hard-pushed to find better performing plants.

Children under 11 aren't admitted, and you'd be hard-pushed to find a more calming cultural retreat in the city.

Even the angriest class warrior would be hard-pushed to call it luxurious.

It is so floriferous that you'll be hard-pushed to make a significant dent in its numbers even if you love them as I do.

It might not be the most original of gifts, but you'll be hard-pushed to find a mum who doesn't love flowers.

The wind was beginning to scream and tear at the struts of the hard-pushed Camel.

Francesca Lagerberg, head of the company's tax office, said the "hard-pushed" department was "being asked to provide more for less".

Anyone with the misfortune to be born here will be hard-pushed to find an escape route.

With five restaurants, three bars and a nightclub on site, you may find you're hard-pushed to return to New York!

On the days in the run-up to the opening, you'd have been hard-pushed to find a spare paintbrush.

A sicker image you'll be hard-pushed to find.

You’d be hard-pushed to eat this well, for so little, in such welcoming surroundings anywhere else in Britain.

But officials think Commerzbank will be hard-pushed to present a convincing plan by the January deadline.

Before half-time, in an Emirates stadium around 8,000 short of capacity, you would be hard-pushed to identify that personality.

You would certainly be hard-pushed to find a more picturesque and peaceful place to work and live, just miles from a major conurbation.

Today you’d be hard-pushed to find a famous British comedian who would admit voting Tory.

Now, you would be hard-pushed to tell a diesel from a petrol car if you were standing next to them at traffic lights.”