As the Bush administration was confronting pressure from Africans to do more on trade, it was faced with pressure from many Democrats in Congress to make good on its promises to help the poorest nations.
Yet even if Mr. Greenspan sticks to his gradualist approach, he will confront pressure from other members of the central bank's policy- setting Federal Open Market Committee, some of whom have been pushing for half-point increases since February.
The guidelines envision that while some troops would leave the country when their current areas were secured, others could be reassigned new missions within Afghanistan, giving General Petraeus flexibility in troop deployments as he confronts pressure from some allies and some Democrats in Washington to begin winding down the war next year.
The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.
Such concerns are becoming more common as the population ages and Congress increasingly confronts pressures from elderly voters, lawmakers say.
That imperative will become far more acute if the company goes public, and Twitter confronts pressures to make money fast and play nice with the governments of countries in which it operates; most Twitter users live outside the United States and the company is already opening offices overseas.
Andy Murray confronted mounting pressure and satisfied the mostly dissatisfied home crowd.
He noted that he had confronted similar pressure for government action after tragedies while he was governor: "Look, stuff happens.
Confronted with pressure from the racing industry and budgets that offer little but bad news, the next governor may view the terminals as a painless way to raise revenue.
You are not confronted with pressure every day from people demonstrating in the streets," a hazard of her previous post as agriculture minister in Spain's centre-right government headed by Jose Maria Aznar.She blames the sag in her institution's popularity, and the low turn-out in last year's elections for the European Parliament, on relatively short-term factors.
