Pressure
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Of course, opponents can counter with a “slippery slope” argument: Only total prohibition is a defensible line against political
pressure
for ever-laxer rules.
At the time, many policymakers blamed rapid price increases on “cost push” factors, such as
pressure
from trade unions for excessive wage hikes.
Weidmann and Abe are right: some cost-push
pressure
would be useful.
Democratic
pressure
changed our mandate.
Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward
pressure
on their prices.
Moreover, because more people are evading taxes, tax administrations are under increasing
pressure
to become more lenient or to accept bribes.
Of course, upward
pressure
on commodity prices also stems from supply-side challenges.
Political and market
pressure
would be enough, if print, television, and social media simply refused to carry campaign advertisements from candidates who refused to take the oath.
Now, the
pressure
to deleverage is on – a process that will inevitably lead to liquidity tightening.
The need for reform is greatest in countries like Nigeria and Ghana, where food expenditures are high and food-industry
pressure
is most pronounced.
Will the North’s would-be leaders be able to manage the country’s stock of nuclear weapons responsibly and safely without transferring a few of them abroad, much less respond to international
pressure
to dismantle them in a reasonable and flexible manner?
This may lead to suppression of
pressure
from below for economic reform and opening.
Adding to the pressure, America would expect the kind of cooperation in pacifying Pakistan’s tribal areas that Musharraf has proven unable to provide.
Our goal is to give voice to ordinary victims who have been silenced by fear and social
pressure.
And there is little sign of inflationary pressure, even in the US, which is near “full” employment.
In 2009, under
pressure
from the aid community, the government enacted what was billed at the time as the best anti-corruption legislation in the world; and yet all corruption indicators have continued to worsen.
The clock is ticking: if the Madrid Summit takes place with an agreement between NATO and Russia for closer consultation and cooperation, enlargement could lead to major irritations in Moscow, possibly to deliberate anti-Western action and
pressure
on Russia’s neighbors.
An overwhelming number of Burma’s Buddhist monks have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments’ efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks’ self-restraint to increase the
pressure
on other believers.
Among those who resigned was Marshal of the Sejm Radek Sikorski, the co-author of a European Union initiative designed to strengthen the resilience of certain Eastern European and Eurasian countries to Russian
pressure.
In South Africa, it was arguably the economic
pressure
brought by sanctions which eventually brought down the racist Apartheid system; but by the same token, it was economic support from the outside--including loans from multinational banks--which kept the system going for so long.
In the more tech-oriented economies, like the US, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries, there is a risk that traditional macroeconomic models will overestimate the cost
pressure
from labor.
In particular, lower energy and commodity prices are likely to dampen inflationary
pressure.
That would reinforce the deflationary
pressure
from globalization for years to come.
America’s strategy seems to be to squeeze Qaddafi’s regime out of power through a combination of financial, economic, and even “psychological”
pressure
aimed at isolating the Colonel from his sources of support within his own inner circle.
Surgeons operating manually know how much force they exert only by the way it feels; a surgical simulator, by contrast, could measure that force and indicate when a trainee is applying excessive or insufficient
pressure.
The physical toll carries large economic costs as well, from lost working days to
pressure
on health-care systems.
We would train people to go around examining these mice and diagnose high blood pressure, diabetes, greed, and so forth.
And, working at an official level, it means co-sponsoring with Brazil the Open Government Partnership, which brings together governments committed to increasing transparency, accountability, and citizen participation, and uses mutual peer
pressure
and open reporting to hold them to their commitments.
In 2008, two
pressure
fronts of global capitalism were rushing toward each other across Eurasia.
A US veto of a Security Council resolution – supported by the Council’s 14 other members – to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under
pressure
from America’s pro-Israel lobby.
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