Sentence examples for designed to pressure the from inspiring English sources

The late flurry of activity came after the Council postponed a vote that had been designed to pressure the mayor.

Sanders's "Stop Walmart Act" is designed to pressure the biggest employer in America to raise wages for nearly 1 million workers.

Kuwait's overproduction of oil was a tactic designed to pressure the Iraqis to acknowledge Kuwait's right to drill on the Rumaila field.

The U.N. sanctions are designed to pressure the Taliban into turning Mr. bin Laden over to a country that will prosecute him and to force the closure of his and other terrorist training camps.

Mr. Silverstein's latest move seems designed to pressure the authority to acquiesce to his demand that it guarantee as much as $3.2 billion in financing of two of the three office towers he is to build at the site.

Fifteen former students of the failing for-profit giant Corinthian Colleges are refusing to repay their federal student loans in a protest designed to pressure the government into forgiving their debt.

Finally, the policy involves the expenditure of public resources on what Trump himself admits is retaliatory and designed to pressure public officials of the opposing party into giving him his way — which is nakedly corrupt on its face.

In recent weeks unemployed people have joined President Obama and Democratic lawmakers for several press conferences designed to pressure Republicans into supporting the federal benefits, which kick in for workers who use up six months of state aid.

This comment was designed to pressure Lezica into speeding up the legal system to allow the people to express themselves, or otherwise risk a major rebellion.

They persist in the face of the Americans' blatant advocacy on behalf of the Israelis, refusing to cave in to consistent American pressure designed to force the Palestinians to compensate for Israeli inflexibility with ever-greater concessions of their own.

Bill Shorten is attempting to shrug off his internal concerns by pushing ahead with efforts to pressure the government on a banking royal commission, including proceeding with procedural motions in the House of Representatives later this week designed to maintain pressure for the inquiry.