A century ago, observant Jews on the doorstep of America were pressured to abandon their strict adherence to religious doctrine.
"I know from experience that these arguments are difficult on the doorstep, where - after years of pressure on living standards and worries about jobs and housing - immigration is deeply unpopular.
It warned: "Doorstep sellers are often trained in pressure sales techniques and they can be very persuasive.
NEW YORK -- A coalition of Muslim groups delivered a new report on the NYPD's surveillance program to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's doorstep on Monday, hoping to put pressure on the department a day before its annual budget hearing.
Huge popular support for the PAH demands have put PP politicians on the offensive: politicians have described the group as "Nazis" and "terrorist sympathisers" because activists were doorstepping them in their homes to pressure them to pass the new law.
Things were so simple, in fact, that using a little muscle often meant little more than, say, depositing a dead cat on the doorstep of a landlord who was being pressured into selling a coveted property.
To the north, Chad is in a precarious state, calm for now but under huge pressure from the conflicts on its doorstep in Darfur, Libya, northern Nigeria and Mali.
But even while she is currently living on what she acknowledges is a dangerous shopping street (Yves Saint Laurent, Chloe, Lanvin, Prada and Hermes are all at her doorstep), Tolson doesn't seem to feel much pressure to fly the fashion flag - French or American; when it comes to clothes, Tolson does not put herself in the same league as the first ladies Michelle Obama or Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
It is hard to imagine that path leading anywhere other than across his doorstep and into the crib room, such is the pressure that is building.
Workers in western Germany were already scrambling to compete with more flexible eastern Germans and cheap labour on Germany's doorstep in central Europe, and Agenda 2010 increased the pressure.
