full court press
全场紧逼,全场比赛,全力以赴
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- : Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- : a vigorous attack or offensive.
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To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
On Dec. 30, she filed a similar lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court.
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Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.
It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.