Sentence examples for improper pressure from inspiring English sources

Was this improper pressure?

Neither Mr Mandelson nor any other minister exerted "improper pressure".

Mr. Watson and Mr. Vacca said that these were only suggestions, and that they never exerted any improper pressure.

We will be advising any journalist who comes under improper pressure to raise it with the union immediately.

Only the polling station, it noted, could provide an absolute assurance against improper pressure and influence on voters.

Sources from the military and defence ministries told the news agency Adnkronos that Salvini's directive had "crossed a red line" and represented an "improper pressure".

First, that in proposing a legislative under-pinning for his new system of independent self-regulation, he is, in the words of the prime minister, Mr Cameron, "crossing a Rubicon", by which I take it he means moving too far from the hitherto hallowed principle that the Press must remain unfetttered and free from improper political pressure.

The practices were examined in articles this week in The New York Times, prompting calls for Congressional hearings into ways to protect service members from improper sales pressure.

— Judge revives lawsuit against Zinke's casino decision: A federal judge has ruled the Mashantucket Pequot tribe can revive a lawsuit that claimed former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke blocked a casino deal because of improper political pressure, Politico reports.

"Charlottesville City Council used improper political pressure in encouraging police to violate the constitutional rights of pro-white groups". Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones said in a statement that the report delivers on the city's promise of transparency.

A federal judge in Manhattan refused on Tuesday to dismiss charges against Viktor Bout, a reputed arms trafficker whose lawyer had argued that his client's extradition from Thailand was a result of improper political pressure by the United States.