Sentence examples for civil pressure from inspiring English sources
I wondered what Hazare, as an exemplar of a venerable style of civil pressure, made of Occupy Wall Street.
Until now there has at least always been sufficient civil pressure on the Hong Kong government to ensure basic freedoms.
While Global Fund financial support was necessary, civil society's pressures for policy reform through the Fórums were present prior to the Global Fund's emergence; however, these civic pressures did not have any influence on strengthening the MOH's commitment to policy reform [ 17, 48, 56].
No doubt civil society pressure will be needed to turn this into a global movement and counteract potential corporate resistance.
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the civil rights pressure group Liberty, says that the UK already has "the longest period of pre-charge detention in the west".
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the civil rights pressure group Liberty, says the UK already has "the longest period of pre-charge detention in the west".
But only civil society pressure groups outside the political mainstream called for demonstrations against the police's handling of the Marikana strike, or for answers from Lonmin, the London-listed owner of the mine.
And a new set of voluntary guidelines on land tenure was decided by the committee for food security; positive steps that came about in large part as a result of sustained civil society pressure.
The ubiquitous but shadowy security services also stand accused, by Human Rights Watch and local journalists, of following Khartoum's example and taking an increasingly authoritarian, "surveillance society" approach to independent media, NGOs and civil society pressure groups.
Josie Appleton is director of civil liberties pressure group The Manifesto Club.
