"exercise pressure" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the pressure that is put on someone to do something, usually through persuasion or effort. For example: "The board of directors agreed to exercise pressure on the CEO to step down."
"Through sending Arab monitors, we can exercise pressure on the regime," Mr. Hussein said in a phone interview.
There is every reason to believe that apart from genuine indications, given deliberately or in the heat of the discussion, certain developments were deliberately designed to exercise pressure upon or to impress us.
In turn, people intent on influencing the behavior of an organization or one of its subunits will often exercise pressure directly on its manager, expecting that person to transmit the influence inside, as was most pointedly clear in the work of the parks managers.
The less isolated people feel, the more they realize their potential strength, and the more capable they are to organize themselves and exercise pressure on the government.
Yet despite changes to European Union bank merger regulations, national regulators in E.U. member states can be expected to continue to exercise pressure in favor of their domestic banking institutions, and this may include effectively blocking hostile transactions.
The difference, however, is that American leaders are willing to exercise pressure on Palestinian leaders that they have proven incapable of exercising on the Israeli side. .
But to deduce from this that he was exercising pressure or causing injustice to the victim is outrageous".
Pre-exercise pressure values were then obtained bilaterally.
Referring to the abuse-of-power charge, he said: "I have never exercised pressure on officials of the Milan police".
Symptomatic TN is caused by a structural lesion (apart from neurovascular contact (a vessel, typically leading to the cerebellum, exercising pressure on the trigeminal nerve)).
I don't think they would close down media outlets but they could certainly be capable of exercising pressure to force editors to step down".
