"I'm sending people around Europe pressing other countries that they should commit more troops," he said.

He also pressed countries that have promised aid to Iraq to make good on their pledges.

Having pressed other countries to forge this agreement, Washington now awkwardly refuses to join in its effectuation.

The United States is pressing Asian countries to undertake wholesale and painful economic reforms.

In pressing Germany and other countries for faster domestic growth, the United States is asking more of them than it is willing to deliver itself.

Mr. Bush has said he intends to use the bill to press other countries to donate more.

The change today is intended to press foreign countries to accept greater competition by offering foreign telecommunications companies potentially valuable incentives in the United States.

She lamented the loss of Washington's help after Sept. 11 in pressing other countries about human rights.

The United States is pressing steel-producing countries around the world to lower output by closing inefficient and unprofitable factories.

But while American officials deny any intention of using the threat of sanctions to press other countries into production cutbacks, bargaining is definitely under way.