Facing rising pressure, some are looking to escape.
WASHINGTON — Facing rising pressure to limit government surveillance programs and provide more information about them, leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have begun negotiating new safeguards and privacy restrictions that they hope to turn into legislation in September, lawmakers said Thursday.
Mr. Barak faced rising pressure to order a large reprisal attack after Israelis grappled for what analysts said was the first time with live images of their wounded soldiers on television.
Daniel Sisto, the president of the Healthcare Association of New York State, in Rensselaer, said that hospitals in New York faced rising pressure because of cuts in federal aid to elderly and poor patients and slow reimbursement from insurers.
More recently baseej forces have ringed the homes of two other prominent dissident ayatollahs in a blunt effort to block them from becoming a focus for protest.Perhaps worse yet for Iran's government, its troubles at home have crippled its foreign policy, at a time when it faces rising pressure to curb its controversial nuclear programme.
These latest very visible scars on the fabric of economic life have appeared as the coalition faces rising pressure to get a grip on a slump that has now lasted five years: what ratings agency Moody's last week called a "lost half-decade", echoing the name given to Japan's long period of stagnation from the early 1990s.
India is facing rising pressure to deal with concerns over poor facilities and security at the Commonwealth Games.
The supermarkets, facing rising pressure from nonunion warehouse stores, insist that employees must start paying a portion of their health insurance for the industry to survive.
Facing rising pressures, Annapurna in October suddenly pulled the plug on its drama about the downfall of late Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and the sexual harassment scandal that ended his career.
As Cuba faces rising pressures to expand its agricultural exports and imports, the "million-dollar question," said Chappell, is whether Cuba will balance protections for its own farmers and domestic food production needs with the push to feed both tourists and outside markets.
