Pressure
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There was no immediate
pressure
to re-invent Europe’s institutional foundation because EU enlargement was the institutional foundation for the new European order.
The country has sensibly resisted
pressure
from the European Commission to take more aggressive steps to reduce its deficit, which, at 5.9% of GDP, was the European Union’s third highest last year.
In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labor has put significant downward
pressure
on wages in Colombia’s informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) – and just when the government was hoping to raise the minimum wage.
Nonetheless, responding to popular pressure, both restrictions have been substantially relaxed.
But unless the Fed acts on such concerns – including by implementing the requirement that large financial institutions adopt meaningful living wills – its independence will come under even greater
pressure.
Thanks to
pressure
on garment manufacturers in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster, the industry’s minimum wage was increased 77%, to $68 a month.
CAMBRIDGE – Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of upward
pressure
on prices.
There could also be strong
pressure
from the US Congress not to raise interest rates.
Although the ECB does not have to deal with direct legislative oversight, it is now clear that there are members of its governing board who would oppose higher interest rates, and that there is political
pressure
from government leaders and finance ministers to keep rates low.
Most EU governments, including the French, now recognise that the CAP must be reformed, if only because of international
pressure
from other food-exporting countries.
Harrison’s alternative was “direct pressure” – that is, using the Fed’s regulatory powers and moral suasion to persuade member banks to curtail their lending to the stock market.
Whether genuine or tactical, Moon has constantly praised Trump’s tough stance of maximum
pressure
as helpful to gaining Kim’s interest in a possible diplomatic solution.
These include affordable-housing crises; tight public budgets that make it necessary to squeeze more out of every dollar in infrastructure projects; and lower oil prices putting
pressure
on capital costs in the hydrocarbons sector.
In 2016, Merkel successfully eased migration
pressure
on Europe by securing a deal to keep migrants in Turkey.
But Bush and his team preferred to
pressure
Iran with sanctions and military threats, and any hope for a negotiated solution vanished when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad succeeded Khatami in 2005.
The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing
pressure
from Israel for the international community to establish a “trigger” – a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.
Physicists do not need to know the behavior of every molecule to predict how a gas will behave under
pressure.
As the Agricultural Age faded, a whole new vocabulary was invented, and the world became familiar with terms like steam pressure, revolutions per minute, and assembly lines.
First, there is no substitute for timely and coordinated action when the single currency is under
pressure.
Those with large surpluses (such as China) will be under increasing
pressure
– including the threat of retaliation – to rein in their “mercantilist” policies.
Specifically, if governments were able to treat infrastructure investment just as companies treat capital expenditure – as balance-sheet assets that are depreciated over their lifecycle, rather than as one-off expenses – such investment could then be exempted from Europe’s deficit rules without opening the door to profligate spending or easing the
pressure
for credible plans for long-term fiscal-consolidation.
A North Korea with nuclear weapons and the means to use them would add
pressure
on South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuclear capacity, which they could easily do.
Equally disturbing has been the continuing reluctance of international leaders to provide new financial commitments to Ukraine, despite growing
pressure
on its foreign-currency reserves and the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown.
If Greece tried to negotiate, the EU made the conditions progressively less attractive, until the
pressure
was too much to bear.
Beyond Trump’s apparent lack of interest in upholding US responsibilities to the bloc, NATO members – from the Baltics to Turkey – are under
pressure.
Totalitarian
pressure
did, indeed, form exceptional people such as John Paul II and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, people for whom religious faith bought freedom from mendacity and solitude.
But he may face
pressure
to become more specific as the election approaches.
And, judging by his tendency to offer pie-in-the-sky ideas, rather than realistic policies, it seems likely that he will respond to that
pressure
with more manipulation.
A multilateral deficit cannot be fixed by putting
pressure
on one of its bilateral components.
Since the trade deficit is widely thought to put
pressure
on US jobs and real wages, the US-China trade imbalance has come under special scrutiny in these days of great angst.
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