| There have also been reports that some employers have been pressuring workers to vote for certain parties. |
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| Soon he came home worried because some kids were pressuring him to join their gang. |
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| While I was pressuring her to find a job and control her drinking, she rebelled by stealing the contents of my bank account. |
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| Both harass the unemployed, pressuring them further into exploitative employment. |
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| He had watched me since I had matured into womanhood, all the while pressuring his father to arrange the marriage. |
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| In a number of states, zoning laws are pressuring gun dealers to limit their businesses. |
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| Some agents, however, say the commissioner's office is pressuring teams to comply as quickly as possible. |
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| The gals are really pressuring you, and it does sound delightfully tempting. |
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| If his family had succeeded in pressuring him to end the relationship, he would have been lost and devalued. |
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| They both came forward at the same time, standing on either side of him, as though pressuring him to wake her. |
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| To me, pressuring people to withdraw their support for the award is challenging the good faith of the body which chose the winner. |
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| The authorities are pressuring me to bring these people to them to record their statements but I am helpless as they refuse to go. |
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| After all, I'd been pressuring him for years to recall this now famous classmate. |
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| It wasn't about U.S. pressuring the parties to resume negotiations, the ever-present goal of Kerry's shuttle diplomacy. |
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| Or on the other hand, from the governments' perspective should piracy be viewed as a handy but deniable mechanism for pressuring the software company's pricing downwards? |
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| The indictment accused him of pressuring people seeking public works projects into retaining a law firm in which he was a secret partner. |
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| Agents of the state or of armed groups may target women as a means of pressuring family members and stigmatizing them. |
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| The Council has also increasingly made use of opinions and resolutions as a way of pressuring the Commission into generating legislative proposals. |
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| But when she was on, she was just serving amazing and going for the returns, pressuring me right away. |
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| It is important that Canada play a role in pressuring other nations to do their part to make the situation in Darfur a better situation. |
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| The Association will, however, keep on pressuring the Canadian Government to improve publicly funded long-term care services. |
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| Buyers and sellers started pressuring the author and the first victim to reimburse them. |
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| They have turned their recent research into microplastics in the Great Lakes into a platform for advocacy, pressuring companies to stop using the plastic beads altogether. |
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| The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron. |
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| Sometimes this amounts to nothing more than pressuring friends into listening to a song we desperately love. |
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| Minutes after arriving in the compound Elkin was surrounded by worshipers, students and mosque guards, pressuring him to leave. |
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| According to her, some of her friends are pressuring her to do that. |
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| His agent, who is planning a controversial exhibit of the photos Alex took just prior to blacking out underwater, is pressuring him to attend the show's opening. |
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| Mr Aznar, in Barcelona I do not think that you had any problem with pressuring France to the end regarding the liberalisation of electricity, despite the fact that there was an electoral process underway in that country. |
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| Hydrophobic contaminants bioaccumulate in fatty tissues, biomagnifying up the food chain and pressuring apex predators and humans. |
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| Someone is pressuring you to make financial decisions against your will. |
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| China has also staked claims to the disputed Spratly and Parcel archipelagos, pressuring Western companies to abandon joint ventures with Vietnam to exploit these potentially oil-and-gas rich islands. |
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| On 26 February, the representatives of Abkhaz law enforcement agencies threatened the relatives and neighbours of the alleged suspect, pressuring them to go to Zugdidi to convince him to hand himself in. |
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| Analysts expect the cartel to keep its production quota unchanged while pressuring member countries to comply with their current production limits. |
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| For example: Foreign governments or groups which interfere with or direct the affairs of ethnic communities within Canada by pressuring members of those communities. |
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| Since then, a large volume of high-quality barley from competing countries, particularly from the European Union, has come onto the market, pressuring prices downward. |
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| Taking unfair advantage of older adults by making them sign legal documents, pressuring them to provide financial support or care for others, or wrongfully using a power of attorney, are also examples of financial abuse. |
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| The reinforcement of the sling's polyester fabric distributes the pressure over a larger area, preventing the fabric from pressuring the skin, which can be experienced as painful by sensitive patients. |
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| Record low housing affordability is pressuring mortgagors, and the global credit crisis has increased funding costs for lenders. |
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| I had been pressuring my parents for a long time, because, like, most of the kids in my class had training bras and stuff. |
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| Already, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its allies are pressuring the new Congress-led government to help it settle scores with its opponents in Tamil Nadu by dismissing the state government. |
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| If I can't afford it, no one's pressuring me to cough up, either. |
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| It must stop pressuring publishers who seek to inform the world about threats to democracy, while it goes relatively easy on publishers who spy on the families of murdered girls. |
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| He said it to both the sisters, but Shelley felt he was pressuring her. |
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| The letter explains why those committees should not be pressuring witnesses to breach legal and statutory duties by which witnesses sometimes feel bound. |
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| Pressuring people to join a food drive is good, but pressuring people to smoke is bad, for example. |
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| Lavrov stressed that unwinding the confrontation with a purpose of pressuring Russia with sanctions is prospectless. |
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| Nigeria, and Moses in particular, started in a lively manner, retaining possession, working the ball wide and both pressuring the US midfield and defense and tempting them to lose their shape with their probing. |
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| In 1996 the US Department of Justice launched an investigation into possible improper pressuring of issuers by Moody's in order to win business. |
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| In the Lethbridge strike of 1906, the force permitted the union some latitude in pressuring strikebreakers, in order to encourage a settlement in which neither side lost face. |
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| Many governments question the utility of the system and often work to undermine its effectiveness, including by pressuring the Commission with extralegal, political arguments. |
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| The premise of much research is that the Internet is an inherently democratizing medium, promoting pluralism, strengthening civil society, and pressuring governments to become more accountable to their people. |
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| The 1990s saw a rise in student and labour protests pressuring the king to introduce reforms. |
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| A Liberal backbencher is pressuring the industry minister to prove he is not under the influence of companies funding his underground former leadership campaign. |
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| In the specific case where the vessel is still pressuring and in case of failure, the ejection of corium into the containment could lead to direct heating of the atmosphere in the containment. |
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| The Rubin Kazan backline failed to clear the ball with Chelsea pressuring to set up the Nigerian ripped the ball from distance. |
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| Cowling, of Larbert, Stirlingshire, blamed her bosses for pressuring her. |
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| This was particularly important for John, as a way of pressuring the barons but also as a way of controlling Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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| In that match, behind outside hitters Courtney Alberi and Layne Castro and junior setter Taylor Kasha, the Vikings were able to hold off a pressuring Centurions team. |
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| Because we don't want our point guard to wear himself out by bringing the ball up court on offense and pressuring the opposing point guard on defense. |
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