Pressure
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If North Korea resumes nuclear and long-range missile tests, Trump, whose instinct is to escalate the rhetoric of conflict, will come under
pressure
to respond forcefully.
So far, China has refused to bow to US
pressure.
But
pressure
from the French army, and rebellion in Algeria, did not give Parliament much of a choice.
Most of the forces that have kept the regime in place for the last 16 months are still there, the opposition remains divided, and the US and its Western allies are still shy of exerting full
pressure
on Assad’s government.
Uganda needs diplomatic
pressure
to stop stoking conflicts, not another opportunity to profit from Western naiveté.
If the Russian state functioned well, Putin could continue to withstand
pressure
from opposition leaders.
Today, these earlier commitments are becoming economically meaningful, increasing the
pressure
on many developing countries.
In such a scenario, the
pressure
on developing countries to accept digital rules would intensify.
In the Cuban missile crisis, the US and the Soviet Union stumbled to the precipice of nuclear war, not because of any desire for one (except among a few hothead extremists), but because of a series of miscalculations and
pressure
exerted by hardliners.
But, ironically, more expensive imports will also put upward
pressure
on the domestic inflation rate, which could force the Fed to raise interest rates even faster than planned.
As it stands, there is no shortage of resistance to freedom-oriented reform and
pressure
to pursue statist policies.
With oil exports accounting for nearly 90% of government revenue, the
pressure
on Saudi finances has been intense; the fiscal balance has swung from a small surplus in 2013 to a deficit of more than 21% of GDP in 2015, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.
In the next 15 years, some six million young Saudis will reach working age, putting enormous
pressure
on the labor market and potentially doubling its size.
More recently, in the early 1980’s, the International Monetary Fund and the central banks in the big industrial countries teamed up to
pressure
banks into extending more credit to the big Latin American debtor countries.
International
pressure
has mounted since the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed last November that the country’s nuclear program was advancing towards the production of nuclear arms, rather than electricity or medical isotopes, with new sanctions imposed on Iranian oil exports and on transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
They forget how long it took NATO to get its act together in Bosnia, and how many conditions had to fall into place before the allies took the plunge: mounting
pressure
in the United States; irritation between Europeans and Americans; realization that NATO passivity will mutate into irrelevance.
Moreover, the problematic finances of some sub-national governments, for example in the US and Spain, will place
pressure
on central governments for fiscal aid.
But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing
pressure
on government budgets.
Thus, as it stands today, EMU could be compared to a
pressure
cooker without any relief valve built in.
But this could ratchet up
pressure
on non-sanctioned Russian elites to prove their loyalty to Putin, possibly even triggering a purge of the more pro-Western elements in Russia’s political class.
As a minister I once put
pressure
on Gazprom over taxes and was summoned to parliament by indignant deputies.
And, from the 1990s on, globalization – in particular, China’s integration into the world economy – has probably been the main reason for the decline in global inflationary
pressure.
While it is impossible to estimate the precise size of Chinese firms’ tax burden, they feel under
pressure.
Even independent directors, often acclaimed as the solution to all problems, are subject to the same
pressure.
Egypt’s Copts and Iraq’s dwindling Christian community feel the
pressure
the most.
However, the precise nature of the water crisis will vary, with different
pressure
points in different regions.
The weakening of the euro and the ECB’s aggressive measures may even stop the deflationary
pressure
later this year.
The consequence was a demand for gold in the US and mounting exchange-rate
pressure
on Britain and other European importers.
The same pattern of selling
pressure
on the pound sterling was repeated in the interwar era.
A predictable funding problem was left unresolved until the moment when creditors would be least likely to present a united front, and most likely to give in to
pressure
to undertake crisis-management measures.
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