We must get out of thinking that the cure-all is the election, and realize that while elections are important, constant -- and often confrontational -- pressure against both parties has always been the only force that makes real progress.
PAGE B1 Union Increases Pressure The union for 70,000 striking or locked-out California grocery workers is waging an increasingly confrontational campaign.
Davies concludes: "The better way is to try to encourage parents to focus on their children in a less acrimonious litigious and confrontational atmosphere, to reduce pressures on the courts, and avoid pressures on Cafcass".
While a binding vote is far more confrontational and puts more pressure on directors to find the proper pay package, a symbolic vote could prove to be just that.
If comparable accidents occur during this fall's leadership transitions in both countries, popular pressure for more confrontational policies in both China and the United States will be more difficult to contain — and will increase the likelihood of conflict in Asia.
This is a society built on harmony, and until politicians hardened the divisions, the pressure for change was less confrontational.
This process is primarily bottom-up, and the novice often finds the peer pressure for service and selflessness confrontational.
On June 17th, under French pressure, she endorsed the non-confrontational "Vienna" model, under which Greece's creditors are expected voluntarily to buy new Greek bonds as old ones fall due.
The Obama administration faces constant pressure from labor unions to take a more confrontational stance toward China on trade.
But he has stopped short of the more confrontational measures favored by the Taiwan Solidarity Union, partly because of American pressure.
For years, the prime minister has skillfully mobilized many Jewish groups and Congressional Republicans to pressure the Obama administration into taking a more confrontational approach against Iran.
