press home


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Verb1.press home - make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something; "drive home a point or an argument"; "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas"
accent, accentuate, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
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Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) continued their protest on Wednesday to press home their 16-point demand.
PRIMARY school teachers of public schools in Oyo State will from tomorrow begin an indefinite strike to press home their demand for the state government to address issues related to promotion and leave grant.
Having moved to the top of the leaderboard after winning in Motherwell on Tuesday, Tennant is eager to press home the advantage.
Finally the flood lights came on and Hawks started to press home their advantage with a further two well-taken goals from Jez Clarke.
He continued to press home his advantage and led 65-31.
Josh Lewis, a 25-year-old Welsh stonemason making his first start for Bath, put them 6-0 ahead with a pair of penalties but they could not press home the advantage as Benetton's pack took control.
"This is one of the reasons that we like to press home because they don't like a team waiting," Koeman said.
However defeats for Golley, Morgan, Aled Greville, Tom Froom and Davies saw the Scots press home their advantage.
Fernando Torres had silenced a raucous home crowd when he fired Chelsea into a ninth-minute lead but the Premier League leaders could not press home their first-half dominance and the Turkish side improved markedly after the break.
Idzi, signed from Welsh Premier League Bangor City, is now established as Merthyr Town's number one goalie as the league leaders work to press home their advantage.
In more than 80 years of Test cricket at the Gabba only twice has a team won an Ashes Test there and failed to press home the advantage, the report said.
The demonstrators cheered the deal as "a victory in just one round of the struggle against the Israeli occupation forces." "The resistance (armed groups in Gaza) didn't yield to the Israeli conditions; to the contrary they were able to press home their demands," one of the demonstrators told KUNA here.