Sentence examples for general pressure from inspiring English sources

"The general pressure is in the fight for new customers who haven't cast their vote yet," he said.

It's also a great tip for bosses to use when they see an employee not coping well with the general pressure.

Nevertheless, rights, distribution and programme-making arm FremantleMedia, which owns UK producer TalkbackThames and makes The X Factor and The Bill, recorded a 10.3% drop in earnings before interest, tax and amortisation "mainly due to general pressure on profit margins".

Earnestly desiring leisure, feeling a decline of his physical powers, and wincing under abuses of the opposition, Washington refused to yield to the general pressure for a third term.

Lloyds's fine was increased by 10% because regulators had warned that its incentive schemes were poorly managed, and because it was fined for the unsuitable sale of bonds in 2003 "caused in part by the general pressure to meet sales targets".

On Friday, Germany passed a law requiring companies to apportion thirty per cent of supervisory seats on their boards to women, prompting the Times reporters Alison Smale and Claire Cain Miller to write, "In passing the law, Germany joined a trend in Europe to accomplish what has not happened organically, or through general pressure".

Ince sees 25 December as "a wonderful time to take a break, to gather with your family, to take winter walks and avoid the general pressures of existence.

Only last September, inflation was as low as 1.1%.In the Bank's Inflation Report, the upsurge in inflation is attributed partly to higher oil prices and partly to more general pressures arising from an economy operating close to capacity.

Not the bitter turf war between Qantas and Virgin, not the foreign-airline investments in rival Virgin, not the general pressures on international aviation, not the decisions and actions of Qantas management but the impost of the carbon pricing scheme on aviation fuel.

From this perspective, lineages undergoing RGE could potentially be exhibiting general pressures that have simply proceeded to a more advanced stage.

Practitioners' attitudes were principally influenced by the perceived burden of dental conditions, general pressures of their workload and perceptions about why the patient had been motivated to seek care.