Sentence examples for imposing pressure on from inspiring English sources

In a frank interview last week in Damascus, Rami Makhlouf, Syria's most powerful businessman and a confidant and childhood friend of Mr. Assad, warned the international community against imposing pressure on the Syrian government.

Speaking from a command post near Falluja, Abadi said: "All our security forces are preoccupied with liberating Falluja and nearby areas, and imposing pressure on them in Baghdad and other provinces to protect the demonstrations will affect (the Falluja push).

4) The same pro-occupation forces that have blocked Washington from taking effective action to pressure the Israeli government to accept a just resolution of the conflict are understandably opposed to any effort to go around them by imposing pressure on the Israeli government in other arenas.

On one hand, the efficiency hypothesis considers that globalisation imposes pressure on governments that favours market interests over social issues, thus reducing social expenditures.4 Kaufman and Segura-Ubiergo (2001) find that there is a negative impact of trade openness on the various types of social expenditure.

But who is Bridget Jones without the thing she satirized the externally imposed pressure on a woman to self-improve?

"The U.S. government is imposing all its power to impose pressure on us; they tell other countries not to trade with us," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.

"It is clear that our policy is going to be to continue to impose pressure on Iran, so long as it defies its international obligations".

"The agreement that has been concluded between the US and China does not impose pressure on us; India is an independent country.

Hezbollah says the tribunal has become hopelessly politicized, and, indeed, the United States and France have long viewed it as a way to impose pressure on neighboring Syria, the traditional power broker here.

Resolution 2139 was hailed as the first meaningful decision by the global body that has been in deadlock since the war began, with Syrian allies, Russia and China, vetoing all other moves to impose pressure on regime officials.

"The overheating problems in some sectors have imposed pressure on coal, power, oil and transport supplies and resultingly brought about rises in prices for raw materials and other necessities, according to the meeting".