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69 examples of Pressuring in a sentence

Remember, they were pressuring the appraisers through the compensation system, trying to produce what we call a Gresham's dynamic, in which bad ethics drives good ethics out of the marketplace.
Germany's actually pressuring its neighbors to do that.
Hopefully, she will stop pressuring me to get married now.
You have the sheriff's sidekick who looks like Ethan Hawk, a Wilfred Brimly look alike and the peer pressuring teenager.
The U.S. Senate is pressuring President Clinton to ensure that the war crimes tribunal in The Hague indicts Slobodan Milosevic.
And their publics are not pressuring them to behave otherwise.
The cell phone has become a new way for men to keep tabs on their wives, calling them and pressuring them to come home as soon as possible.
Over the past year, it has been pressuring the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to negotiate.
Indeed, even Bush’s own political base, the Christian fundamentalists, are becoming “green,” pressuring the administration to sign the Kyoto Protocol because they believe that the environment must be protected just like unborn life.
The Trump administration is pressuring China to address intellectual-property theft and to reduce non-tariff barriers (such as joint-venture requirements).
Trump’s policy priorities – fiscal stimulus, corporate tax cuts, possibly a “border adjustment” tax on imports, pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates – will only strengthen the dollar.
In the past, tariffs have not been countries’ chosen instrument for pressuring others.
The pattern has become familiar: construct a dispute, initiate a jurisdictional claim through periodic incursions, and then increase the frequency and duration of such intrusions, thereby establishing a military presence or pressuring a rival to cut a deal on China’s terms.
On NATO and Russia, Tillerson has echoed Trump in pressuring the Alliance’s European members to increase their defense spending.
Hence, Subramanian argues, poor countries must make common cause with the US and other advanced economies in pressuring China to alter its currency policies.
He initially thought that by pressuring Netanyahu to freeze settlements, he would succeed in reviving the peace process.
For weeks the Bush administration kept the report on abuses in Iraqi prisons from the American people by pressuring CBS not to air the photographs in its possession.
So you might expect, then, that alongside other groups, women would begin grassroots movements, initiating a general discourse on gender-relations and "women’s issues", and pressuring politicians to take gender issues seriously.
On trade, Trump wants to curtail Chinese exports to the US, presumably by imposing higher tariffs on Chinese goods and pressuring US and international manufacturers to move their production facilities to America.
But several factors – most of them unrelated to the region – are pressuring banks to pursue faster-than-optimal deleveraging.
In fact, the screening’s organizers had warned that the turnout might be small, because representatives from the mainland had been pressuring students to attend a National Day celebration instead.
But such an architecture will be impossible to achieve as long as the US is pressuring its allies to alienate, if not antagonize, China.
Instead of actually doing something constructive about Europe’s essential problem --reforming expensive welfare states to ensure global competitiveness--Europe’s political leaders are hiding behind straw man arguments about “ultra liberal Anglo Saxon models,” and pressuring the ECB to lower interest rates as if European economic weakness were Frankfurt’s fault.
Supported by other northern European creditors, Germany enforced its fiscal principles relentlessly, despite the systemic consequences for those it was pressuring (Greece and Spain, for example, now have different governments).
This requires monitoring – and pressuring – errant states to ensure that they comply with the Council’s standards.
The role of FIFA, in particular, in pressuring Brazil’s government to enact anti-democratic legislation is a dangerous precedent.
To be sure, the Chinese government is pressuring the biggest tech companies to give it a direct role in corporate decision-making – and direct access to their data.
It is past time for the international community – particularly China, Russia, the US, Japan, and South Korea – to devote similar diplomatic effort to persuading and pressuring North Korea to reform and open its economy.
They are pressuring the ECB to raise rates sooner than later.
While unequivocally commending America's tough stance in pressuring Iraq, Japan should not hesitate to deliver a clear message to the US: exercise patience to avoid war.
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