Example sentences of "up the pressure " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 3 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 4 | We can keep up the pressure for more treaties just as public pressure led to the signing of the INF treaty in 1987 . |
| 5 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 6 | Now the snipers keep up the pressure while the new Romania 's foundations are being laid . |
| 7 | Once a repetition has been observed to flow , it can be dammed like a river , building up the pressure until it becomes irresistible and the dam bursts . |
| 8 | The ‘ showdown ’ strategy has been agreed by the Major Energy Users ' Council , which includes companies such as engineering group GKN , Blue Circle Industries and British Coal as part of a ‘ high profile ’ campaign to step up the pressure on government and the regulator . |
| 9 | Yet inefficiency in the command structure had hampered his efforts to keep up the pressure on Rommel 's supply lines , and in being ordered to return to base , he felt the grip of official interference . |
| 10 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 11 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 12 | ‘ But it would be a good rumour to spread , step up the pressure all round . |
| 13 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 14 | An important influence over this change has come from the US , where shareholders have stepped up the pressure to conform to good community practice . |
| 15 | The conservatism of central and local government bureaucracy is only likely to be overcome if there is a strong , independent political movement keeping up the pressure for the legislation to be made meaningful . |
| 16 | When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase , St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off . |
| 17 | Stomach and chest muscles then contract , pumping up the pressure in the lungs . |
| 18 | Jackie Stewart had started the protests and the action to force the sporting authorities to do something , Niki had kept up the pressure . |
| 19 | Kirov stepped up the pressure . |
| 20 | He wanted an answer quickly , he was n't used to delay of any kind and kept up the pressure , ‘ Please give me your answer , ’ he implored . |
| 21 | At the moment , Hillsborough chairman David Richards insists they will not let Hirst go , but it seems United are prepared to step up the pressure to test their nerve . |
| 22 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 23 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 24 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 25 | Extreme as it may sound , the Hunter experience brings out many disturbing features of West Indian family life : the relentless pressure on children to achieve often unattainable objectives at school ; the stern physical measures adopted to back up the pressure ; the inflexible refusal to accept anything short of total success ; and the youth 's eventual collapse under the pressure . |
| 26 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 27 | DELL KEEPS UP THE PRESSURE |
| 28 | And although the voices from the heartland are reluctant to intervene anywhere , and Congress is at sea , the press keeps up the pressure , pointing to the moral responsibility of solo superpowers to act , and the shame of dragging feet . |
| 29 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 30 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |