Example sentences of "pressure from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |
| 2 | Seasoned pressure-group activists advised Walsh to combine the presentations to top officials with pressure from the grass-roots . |
| 3 | Some families , across the Border or on their own side of it , pursued deadly feuds which could be settled only by the extermination of an entire family or , grudgingly and with much pressure from the Wardens , a compensatory payment in money or goods . |
| 4 | Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority . |
| 5 | Under some pressure from the Liberals , he agreed to accept amendments to reduce the standard rate of income tax in his Finance Bill , but his alternative scheme of including a 2 per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions was much attacked in the City . |
| 6 | But times have moved on … concern over the environment has grown and pressure from the Greens has forced the other parties to take ecological issues seriously . |
| 7 | Though many in Brazil feel that this softening in the law was due to lobby pressure from the multinationals , others take a different view . |
| 8 | So it was not after all , the pressure from the farmers , or the cost , or the private discussions with the fertiliser manufacturers which had motivated the UK to drag its feet over nitrates , but a uniquely shrewd insight into the better interests of public health . |
| 9 | ‘ Last season he felt the pressure from the terraces when the team was struggling and he was skipper . |
| 10 | But pressure from the rights movement has influenced even the British Veterinary Association . |
| 11 | Although Charles 's own personal inclination was to refound a wide , comprehensive church able to encompass as many of the various denominations of the 1650s as possible , it was soon clear that the king would have to bow to pressure from the bishops , the conservative landowners , and their representatives in the Cavalier Parliament , who wished to see a more narrow restoration . |
| 12 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 13 | These things can happen on the smallest scale — within one family , when a husband treats his wife as a breeding machine — or on a national or international scale , when entire ‘ populations ’ come under pressure from the planners , and individual human rights become as invisible as the individual human people the word ‘ population ’ conveniently obscures . |
| 14 | In 1985 the Serbs in Kosovo Polje , a suburb of Priština , collected 2,011 signatures to a petition , in which they complained of constant pressure from the Albanians , amounting to ‘ fascist genocide ’ , and of the failure of the Kosovo government to protect them . |
| 15 | Under pressure from the others Bert advanced a bony hand and Ernie took it in his massive fist . |
| 16 | Having reached a consensus on the shape of the interim administration , which is to steer the country to full democracy , and what that democracy should look like , they have come under pressure from the others involved in the stalled multi-party discussions about South Africa 's future . |
| 17 | Another approach to ATP for a date change seems certain and do not be surprised if this time the pressure from the players points it in a different direction . |
| 18 | … in recent weeks , Bush and Major have been under some pressure from the families of people who died at Lockerbie . |
| 19 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 20 | But very soon pressure from the vassals — and also , it may be , the simple fact that a good vassal 's children were likely to be good vassals themselves — made it common , then normal , and finally an inherent part of the feudal contract that the grant was heritable . |
| 21 | Most of the material which flows out under pressure from the capillaries is returned from the tissues by osmosis ; by virtue of the high concentration of plasma protein in the blood and the sparsity of proteins in tissue fluid . |
| 22 | Haemorrhage is avoided by the application of pressure from the toes upward as the " stripper " passes . |
| 23 | Sandys accepted the General Staff view after his visit to Kenya , during which he came under pressure from the settlers to give confidence by building permanent barracks for the Strategic Reserve units likely to be stationed there . |
| 24 | As for Gerstner , IBM is coming under pressure from the Securities & Exchange Commission to make an announcement to prevent a false market in the shares . |
| 25 | Under mounting pressure from the pomeshchiks , this period was gradually extended until , in 1649 , the peasants were permanently bound to the land and forbidden to move . |
| 26 | Eschewing undue optimism , and the constant pressure from the pincers precluded any such temptation , the White Paper irradiated a belief in the importance of scrutinizing the causes of crime , calmly and dispassionately , in order to ascertain more effectively methods of combating it . |
| 27 | Instead , the government intends to resist pressure from the unions for a freeze , and separate suggestions for a generalised rationing system . |
| 28 | He does n't cough up , cry off , cave in or collapse under pressure from the unions , no matter how fierce their attempted stranglehold . |
| 29 | When the Toronto-based journalist Leo Heaps wrote a book detailing the secrets of their rise to power , pressure from the brothers helped ensue it never appeared . |
| 30 | Religious education and personal and social education ( broadly defined to include 16 areas such as careers education , community studies , education for parenthood and family life , health education , mass media , moral , political and economic education ) are compulsory in ISS : in TNC religious education is assumed ( but later given status as a ‘ basic ’ subject after pressure from the churches ) and elements of personal and social education are to be ‘ taught through other subjects ’ , though no advice is given on how this might be achieved . |