Sentence examples for group pressured from inspiring English sources

"A well-known environmental-advocacy group pressured NPR into reading a statement critical of the book," he wrote.

Gilmore, when asked about the criticism, said neither the NAACP nor any other group pressured him to add slavery to the proclamation.

Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used "commercial harassment" against recruits.

The group pressured Facebook to name a woman to its board using social media prior to the IPO and celebrated when it did.

Recorded after the group pressured producer and friend Arabian Prince to let them have a go at rapping during off hours in the studio, the track blew up when early Los Angeles rap station KDAY started spinning it.

By persistently and creatively challenging PNC's claims of being a "green bank," our scrappy grassroots group pressured them to effectively cease their investments in a controversial practice that contributes to both climate change and high rates of cancer in Appalachia.

The investigative journalist Debbie Nathan talks of hysteria, panic, group pressures.

It cites peer group pressure or the views of parents.

"In order for [the convention] to work, it is dependent on peer group pressure.

The negative influence of peer group pressure reinforces cultural isolation and promotes failure.

"Do people tend to conform to group pressure?" Aronson said in an e-mail interview.