Pressure
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In that vein, closing down trade with China, while failing to address the saving shortfall, is like putting
pressure
on one end of a water balloon.
Indicators to be measured include not just rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and incidence of disease and related costs, but also absenteeism, school grades and graduation rates, employment statistics, accidents, and the like.
Though interest rates across the European Union are at historic lows, government debt in the eurozone could come under severe
pressure
should bond markets re-evaluate the riskiness of sovereign borrowers.
Price stability has not put profit margins under
pressure.
With digital technology giving local protesters access to political networks and a broad international audience, governments have come under growing
pressure
to accede to demonstrators’ demands.
But instead of bowing to popular pressure, the political and economic elites have, in many cases, preferred to crack down on the protests themselves.
Some of South Africa’s institutions – including the judiciary and the public protector – have proven resilient in the face of immense
pressure
to capitulate to Zuma’s agenda.
If Valls wins, Macron will come under renewed pressure, because he is the other major representative of the Socialists’ “social-liberal” wing – although Valls is much more authoritarian than Macron on “Republican” issues such as secularism and national security.
China will gain a measure of risk diversification, reduce the price
pressure
that has kept earnings on its foreign exchange reserves low, and avoid running into political trouble.
One school of thought maintains that the Cold War was won as a result of decades of sustained US and Western
pressure
on the Soviet Union and its allies.
This
pressure
at various times took the form of US, British, and French nuclear programs;NATO’s willingness to counter Warsaw Pact deployments of both conventional military and tactical nuclear forces; the decision to defend South Korea against the North’s aggression; the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to bleed Soviet occupation forces; and the decision to build a costly missile-defense system aimed both at negating the Soviet Union’s principal military investment and bankrupting its government.
It was important to moderate the competition in order to allow
pressure
for change to build up from within the Soviet bloc.
More recent developments may have contributed to the downward
pressure
on prices, including discussion about abolishing interest-rate ceilings on deposits (the cap on term deposits of one year or more was removed on August 25).
Indeed, though the sources of Saudi resentment toward the United States are many – support for Israel, negotiations with Iran,
pressure
on human rights – none is more important than the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Critics of DST fear that, if the sun is still out at the end of business hours, managers will feel
pressure
to continue working and push their employees to do the same.
The eleventh-hour U-turn on the push for military action has come against a backdrop of intensifying diplomatic
pressure
from the international community to avoid escalation of the violence in Syria.
And the trend is not abating, placing increasing
pressure
on already-strained political systems.
Given how hard it is for governments to initiate a shift to a new policymaking mode (that is, to disrupt themselves),
pressure
will build from the outside.
But, despite tremendous
pressure
from its allies and others, Turkey is unlikely to intervene unilaterally, or to arm the rebel army on its territory.
In the coming months, international
pressure
to tackle this crisis will grow.
The meeting took place just months after Washington fended off Russian
pressure
on the Kyrgyz to close the base.
Escalating brutality and the actions of governments have put Arab citizens under immense
pressure.
This rule serves to curb inflationary demand
pressure
while preventing elected officials from squandering the country's riches on politically rewarding but economically wasteful projects.
Because of their relatively short tenure in one position before promotion (less than three years, on average, for local mayors), Chinese officials are under enormous
pressure
to demonstrate their ability to produce economic results quickly.
Only institutions give predictability to cooperation, they create the mutual confidence necessary for working together, they establish a vested interest in joint success and put
pressure
on bureaucracies to deliver.
Here, political pressure, including from the US Treasury, was put on the supposedly independent Board not to make the change.
We continue to view the press as our defender against an over-mighty state, despite politicians’ often-craven performance in the face of media
pressure.
In 1989, following
pressure
from Parliament, the government commissioned David Calcutt to chair a committee to “consider what measures (whether legislative or otherwise) are needed to give further protection to individual privacy from the activities of the press and improve recourse against the press for the individual citizen.”
Deforestation, growing population pressure, urbanization, soil erosion, over-fishing, and the impact of foreign domination over marketing, inputs, processing, and even farming also play a role.
Big debtors include some of those countries whose currencies have come under downward
pressure
recently: China ($1 trillion), Brazil (more than $300 billion), India ($125 billion), plus Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, and Latin America’s financially open economies: Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Mexico.
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