Example sentences of "response to pressure from " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors . |
| 2 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 3 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 4 | In England there was to have been a four-year transitional period , commencing in 1990 , during which the community charge would have been gradually introduced and rates phased out , but the Secretary of State , in response to pressure from his own party , agreed late in 1987 that with the exception of a handful of London boroughs ( where some flexibility remains ) the community charge should be introduced throughout England in 1990 without any phasing-in period . |
| 5 | Community Environment Ministers voted on June 8 to prolong indefinitely a six-year ban on the import of skins and other products from baby seals , in response to pressure from animal welfare organizations ( see also p. 35959 ) . |
| 6 | Cain 's resignation on Aug. 7 was in response to pressure from within his party arising from the severe financial difficulties experienced by his government after the failure of several state-owned enterprises . |
| 7 | The suddenness of the announcement was judged to be in response to pressure from US environmentalists and to a letter presented to Collor from nine leading Democrat senators during the visit , urging him to honour previous promises he had given to protect the rain forest and its indigenous tribal peoples [ see p. 37528 ] . |
| 8 | Suharto 's advancement of a pro-democratic line was in part a response to pressure from sections of the armed forces ( ABRI ) . |
| 9 | However , he reversed his decision in response to pressure from the ruling People 's Progressive Party . |
| 10 | The Israeli army issued new orders on Feb. 2 , apparently in response to pressure from Israeli settlers , easing the circumstances under which soldiers in the occupied territories were authorized to open fire . |
| 11 | The policy of " resource security of major new industrial wood processing projects " was introduced under Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 1991 , in what was seen as a response to pressure from the timber industry and an impending general election . |
| 12 | Catch quotas in the open seas are set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization , but the EC set its own , higher , quotas in 1986 in response to pressure from the depressed Iberian fishing industry . |