"I have stressed when I hire people that it's based on their qualifications, and we have no intent to pressure them into any kind of religious experience," he says.
If Rouhani has been impervious to the kind of messages hardliners want him to hear, there was yet another sign this week of their intent to pressure him with the release of a documentary called I Am Rouhani.
He takes the ball earlier than any player I've seen play, and he manipulates the ball with a precision and intent to pressure his opponent unlike most people have seen".
If Ms. Brinkley's intent was to pressure Mr. Cook with a string of tawdry public disclosures, including the fact he had used a Web cam to transmit images of himself masturbating, the strategy worked, said Stephen R. Steinberg, a lawyer who has handled many Hamptons divorces.
The new administration had signaled its intent to increase pressure on Iraq, both through reinvigorated economic sanctions and support for the opposition.
The intent behind the cost estimates, he said, is transparent: to pressure judges, in the face of big bills, into sending fewer people to prison.
"Our intent in these meetings is to inform employees, not to pressure them as the union alleges," O'Neill wrote.
The EU has launched an attempt to protect European businesses from Donald Trump's sanctions against Iran as the US administration voiced its intent to apply maximum pressure on Tehran by vigorously applying its punitive measures.
In July, The Amsterdam News, a black newspaper, published an article with the headline, "Black Community to Andrew Cuomo: Where Are You?" Some minority lawmakers have signaled an intent to step up pressure on the Democratic governor, especially if it becomes clear that the outlook for next year's state budget is grim.
Mr. Annan supports a comprehensive treaty to define acts as terrorism that are intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians, with the intent to intimidate others and pressure governments.
Seven different series of experiments, all summing up to 27 runs of tests, were carried out, each with intent to assess transient pore-water pressure variations and the critical hydraulic gradients for seepage erosion initiation and dam failure under steady-state seepage.
