presser

Et il dit à ses disciples qu'il y eût une petite barque toute prête auprès de lui, à cause de la multitude, de peur qu'elle ne le pressât trop.
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
Toutefois, on aurait pu s'attendre à ce que le Parlement pressât d'abord les grands pontes de la Commission européenne, dont la nomination est politique, de respecter l'ordre juridique démocratique en Europe.
However, one might have expected that this Parliament should, in the first place, have urged respect for a democratic legal order in Europe through the politically appointed mandarins of the European Commission.
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