Sentence examples for commonwealth pressure from inspiring English sources

But there were reports that Commonwealth pressure since last year to create commissions on human rights, media rights and corruption had been the last straw for 48 year-old Jammeh.

A pair of activist investors ratcheted up the pressure on CommonWealth REIT on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit to block a proposed stock offering and reiterating a proposal to acquire the real estate company outright.

Norimitsu Onishi (NYT) ZIMBABWE: COMMONWEALTH CONDEMNATION Seeking increased diplomatic pressure on President Robert Mugabe, Britain won support from the 54-nation Commonwealth in condemning political violence, lawlessness and the occupation by squatters of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe.

Outsiders, notably Australia, New Zealand and the wider Commonwealth, should use sanctions to pressure the Fijians to reach a democratic solution.

Faced with the heavy Chinese pressure, the 27th Commonwealth Brigade was again called in to cover the retreat of US IX Corps.

As for the pressure to build on his Commonwealth success, Ogogo said most of this is self-imposed.

Faced with severe financial pressures and an increasing reliance upon Commonwealth transfer payments, after some resistance the states consented, although vertical fiscal imbalance between the states and the Commonwealth continued to be an enduring feature of Australian federal relations.

The diplomatic pressure exerted by membership of the Commonwealth, and the attention attracted by the media circus of international summitry, offer a better hope of bringing Sri Lanka to a lasting peace based on equal rights and recognition of past mistakes.

That is why David Cameron came under pressure to pull out of this week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo.

Kenya should be suspended from the Commonwealth and aid reconsidered.But the most powerful pressure against Mr Kibaki is the sight of his country's economy threatening to implode.

Thankfully, there was an external source of labour to ease the pressure on the jobs market - the 'New Commonwealth' countries of the Indian subcontinent and the West Indies.