Example sentences of "pressure on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Waringstown first of all , must beat old rivals Lurgan at The Lawn this week-end to maintain the pressure on the leaders .
2 The newly formed Requalification Group began exerting pressure on the Bulgarians who finally committed some resources to this work .
3 Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs .
4 One principal target of this non-political group is to capitalise on their public profiles to raise consumer consciousness , while putting pressure on the powers-that-be to reveal the extent to which pesticides are used — preferably through comprehensive labelling of all foods .
5 Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company .
6 The last major constraint , and the one we will examine in most detail , is peer group pressure on the managers themselves , or the operation of the managerial labour market .
7 The Chieftains needed to win following Guildford 's midweek victory at Streatham and the ruthlessness of their display is sure to keep the pressure on the Flames until the very end .
8 We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out .
9 Often there is strong pressure on the departments to give top priority to short-term problems , such as minor product changes , in order to satisfy needs of special users , and assistance to manufacturing and marketing in connection with trouble shooting .
10 By exerting gentle pressure on the zones of the foot the reflexologist is able to diagnose areas of malfunction in the body and then , by massage of the appropriate area of the foot , to help the body heal itself by improving the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems .
11 Miss Danziger put more pressure on the pedals ; she knew that if she did not reach Sandweg before the force of the wind had accumulated its full strength , she would have very hard work before her .
12 The transmission has 16 gears and the gear change is effected simply through pressure on the pedals .
13 Pressure on the finances has been eased by Euro Disney 's deferring its base management fee for 1992 and 1993 , due to the Walt Disney Company in America .
14 Finally , as in England , the MSC in Wales , together with the further education colleges , is busily making preparations for the introduction in September 1983 of the Youth Training Scheme , a programme which will greatly increase the pressure on the colleges , to provide suitable courses of further education .
15 While admitting it was not one of their better performances , Wyllie stressed there was a great deal of pressure on the Colleges younger players .
16 More riots followed and more diplomatic pressure on the Turks to assert their authority .
17 ‘ The British Government should bring pressure on the Saudis to halt this barbaric medieval punishment , ’ he said .
18 In addition , groups of questions were devoted to marriage and to child-care , so that there was no pressure on the women to feel that responses on these subjects would be out of order .
19 For men being named as an absent parent will mean a much higher maintenance bill than in the past and thus some men may put pressure on the women to avoid this .
20 However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index .
21 The pressure on the deputies meeting in their self-styled parliament in Pale this week was intense ( see page 39 ) .
22 It has been suggested that an animal of the size of Brachiosaurus could not have breathed under water because of the pressure on the lungs .
23 His explanation begins by assuming that , as a matter of definition , dominant classes are well placed to put pressure on the institutions of the state , so that the interesting question is why they should ever put up with having their interests thwarted .
24 Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment .
25 The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils .
26 So another three points which keeps Town on the top of division two south and helps to maintain the pressure on the clubs below them ; final score , Abingdon Town three , Horsham nil .
27 His research began several years ago with the design of an instrument for exerting pressure on the brains of anaesthetised experimental animals , and mimicking human brain damage during injury or stroke .
28 The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work .
29 Pressure on the families from the media and neighbours led to psychological disturbances in the children , especially Mary 's child .
30 Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ .
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