Sentence examples for because of foreign pressure from inspiring English sources

Nur was kept in prison for six weeks and was released only because of foreign pressure on the Egyptian authorities.

And, once in a while, conditions improved a little because of foreign pressure on China to do better on human rights.

Banking secrecy is crumbling because of foreign pressure not to provide a home for money from dictators, terrorists and organised crime.

Until now, Iraq resisted falling apart because of foreign pressure, regional fear of going it alone and oil wealth that bought loyalty, at least on paper.

This war has been raging intermittently for half a century, but has come tantalisingly close to resolution in the past year: partly because of foreign pressure, especially from America, and partly because both sides, exhausted, wish to stop fighting and share Sudan's new-found oil wealth.The other war, between the government and two rebel groups in Darfur, pits Muslim against Muslim.

Mr. Tudela, a former foreign minister, said he did not fear threats of foreign pressure, saying "no isolation would be viable" because Peru and other governments in the hemisphere share strategic interests.

Japanese businessmen are familiar with the concept of gaiatsu, or "foreign pressure" to change.

But China has shown no sign of bowing to foreign pressure.

Government officials are extremely sensitive to any appearance of caving in to foreign pressure and interference.

Foreign pressure kept him out of jail.

Decades of foreign policy pressure in Africa have paid off.