Sentence examples for Election under pressure from inspiring English sources

The NUS will now be putting Labour, currently narrow favourites to win May's election, under pressure to pledge it would not charge students.

Within two months of the May 2010 general election, under pressure from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, as well as some of his own backbenchers, the new prime minister, David Cameron, announced the establishment of a judge-led inquiry into the UK's involvement in torture and rendition.

He postponed the move until after the midterm elections under pressure from Senate Democrats who feared it would harm their chances of re-election.

The president had pledged to take action at the end of the summer, but postponed the move until after the midterm elections under pressure from Senate Democrats, who feared any action that could be construed as soft on illegal immigration would harm their electoral prospects.

The late crush of absentee ballots came after election officials, under pressure from a Democratic Party lawsuit, opted to allow voters to cast absentee ballots in person on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

It fell after the Socialist party's poor showing in the European election, and under pressure from the EU over continued support for the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas pipeline in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.

His resignation might finally destroy the peace process.In the run-up to the election and under pressure from more inflexible unionists, Mr Trimble said he would pull out of government with Sinn Fein's two ministers unless the IRA made moves to decommission weaponry by the end of June.

Fillon, considered to be a frontrunner in May's presidential election, is under pressure to explain Penelope Fillon's role in his political operation after Le Canard Enchaîné claimed she was at various times paid an extremely generous salary from public funds allocated to him as an MP for the central Sarthe region.

A moderate Republican candidate withdrew from the campaign just three days before the election under heavy pressure from the party's right wing.

Iraqi Parliament Cancels Rule Change for Election Under strong pressure from the United Nations, Iraq's National Assembly voted to cancel a last-minute rule change that would have made it almost impossible for Iraq's new constitution to fail in the upcoming national referendum.

No campaigners said they thought up to 25% of Labour voters were now backing independence as opinions on both sides hardened; they admitted that put Labour, which commanded more than 1m votes in the 2010 general election, under intense pressure to step up its own party campaign.