Sentence examples for discreet pressure from inspiring English sources

It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that discreet pressure, behind the scenes, will be brought to bear to ensure that the appeals tribunal reverses the findings.

In practice, the commission applied discreet pressure on mandatory governments to pay more attention to what they were doing in their territories.

Among the many complexities of the Koh Tao murder case has been the role of UK authorities: trying to help two grief-stricken British families while simultaneously exerting discreet pressure on Thai authorities to try and ensure a fair trial.

The Hellenic relationship with NATO, and bilateral defence ties with the United States, have long been important (although many would say diminishing) and contested.Whatever the strains, America has often put discreet pressure on its European allies to avoid a rift with Greece, as much because of geopolitics as economics.

In December 2003 General Musharraf narrowly escaped two assassination attempts.He was also, however, under discreet international pressure from his most important foreign backers America and China to prove himself a responsible international citizen.

The betting is that either the British will win over the Japanese banks (prominant among the naysayers) through discreet governmental pressure and close the $1.6 billion gap, or the banks will relax the rules and allow the project to go forward with something less than full fiancing.

The fact that he has not been lashed again since is said by sources in Riyadh to be the result of discreet but heavy political pressure from the US.

But there have been no calls to actually indict or overthrow him, leaving discreet room for a deal - perhaps justified by pressure from Moscow and Beijing - should the Yugoslav leader decide to play ball.

Yousafzai also said Pakistan would put pressure on the Taliban to keep the politicking discreet.

To enable control of the system, the measured pressure signal is decomposed into two parts using a discreet mathematical algorithm: one component represents the ventilator pressure signal and the second part represents the patients breathing simulated with a test lung.

So discreet was he that many historians have doubted that Roosevelt brought any pressure to bear.