Now the foreigners fear similar pressure.
Many foreigners facing these pressures simply pack up and leave, writing off lost wages and wasted time as the price of getting home safely.
(For a keen account of the political pressure on foreigners in China in that period, see this piece by Michael Donohue).
The DoJ uses Interpol red notices (arrest warrants) to put pressure on foreigners indicted in cartel cases to submit to American jurisdiction.
But a lot of people talked about how there was just too much pressure from foreigners, from the US state department, to the WTO and the international media.
Abducting foreigners "is like putting pressure on the painful parts of the body," said Abdul Sattar Abdul al-Jabbar, deputy spokesman for the Muslim Scholars Association, a moderate group that has condemned the kidnappings but is critical of the continuing American presence in Iraq.
Despite the fact that the Constitution has enabled Japan to live for more than six decades in peace and prosperity, so long as there are politicians who disdain it as the work of foreigners there will be pressure to rewrite it.
Mindful of the history of Western oil companies' exploitation of Arabia, he — like Chávez in Venezuela and Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan — has also cleverly ratcheted up the pressure on foreigners to share more revenue with the regime by tweaking contracts, rounding numbers liberally and threatening expropriation.
Radama's successor, Queen Ranavalona I (1828 61), responded to increasing political and cultural encroachment on the part of Britain and France by issuing a royal edict prohibiting the practice of Christianity in Madagascar and pressuring most foreigners to leave the territory.
Trade with foreigners will add to the pressure, already developing internally, for the rule of law to be extended.
