| One of the most difficult tasks of childhood is learning how to resist social pressure. |
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| They are well informed about the consequences, but they are not able to resist the social pressure from their friends. |
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| Commitment to the values and goals of God's kingdom in the face of social pressure is difficult. |
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| This social pressure was crowned with success, helping push this subject to a higher position on the international political agenda. |
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| With profits in mind, pharmaceutical companies and prescribing doctors may sometimes be tempted to give in to strong social pressure. |
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| Nowadays, for efficiency reasons, microfinance increasingly relies on a collective approach, through social pressure. |
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| While there is individual pressure to do what you don't really want to do, there can also be social pressure. |
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| Most children are simply not emotionally able to withstand that level of social pressure. |
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| At a time of economic distress and social pressure, it is more than ever important to advance the Social Agenda for Opportunities, Access and Solidarity. |
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| Obviously, perspectives might be more open if the new geopolitical context lead us to a multipolar world, and if emerging countries, under domestic social pressure, put in place fairer social systems. |
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| There is indeed a trend in all the Member States to lengthen the period of study and strong social pressure to broaden access to higher education and thus raise the level achieved by the greatest number. |
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| However, the YFJ emphasised the need to look at the broader picture and to develop measures to curb the social pressure on young people to drink, and to change the glamourous perception of alcohol. |
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| Finally, in January 2006, due to social pressure, the Nigerian courts cancelled the gas company's licence and ordered that a stop be put to flaring natural gas in petroleum wells in the western zone of the Niger delta. |
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| How can we lose sight of the fact that family and social pressure may force women to agree to the operation when they reach age 18, the age of majority? |
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| Now we are asking immigrants who come to Canada to do the work in these communities where assimilation has occurred-not because Francophones wanted it, but because of the social pressure associated with the Canadian reality. |
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| In countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, considerable social pressure is still exerted on mothers to stay at home and raise their children. |
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| Personality and level of adjustment also appear to be similar for both groups, despite the fact that the obese must deal with tremendous social pressure against them. |
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| In addition, joint-and-several guarantees and social pressure for repayments are significantly easier to create through suitable organizational set-ups in rural areas than in cities. |
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| Nevertheless social pressure must be stepped up to a point where young people especially do not start smoking, and women to not take up smoking either. |
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| Social pressure to ladinize also comes from the more powerful ladinos, who characterize Indians as stupid, lazy, and uncivilized. |
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