But Vicente Fox, the outgoing president, vetoed the law under pressure from the United States.
The Ahmadis were declared a non-Muslim minority in 1974 when Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto agreed to the law under pressure from the Sunni majority.
War places law under pressure, and so it is timely to consider the pressure exerted on law by our previous wars, a pressure that was greatest during the Civil War.
The blasphemy law is a bad law enacted under pressure from extremists who threaten violence if the government does anything to lessen its impact or to ameliorate the lot of those who have fallen victim to it.
The Swiss Government for having opened the way for future such investigations and bent its own laws under U.S. pressure.
Han said that a nation bending its laws under outside pressure "invites endless troubles in the future", leading to a lack of respect for the laws of that country, and dismissed the criticism of China's human rights record by Western governments as "an excuse to intervene in China's internal affairs".
Mr. Obama is following in the footsteps of President George W. Bush, who likewise, in the face of a stalled effort to revamp federal immigration law, came under pressure to increase security.
President Bashar al-Assad's father-in-law is under pressure to step down as co-chairman of the British Syrian Society after the resignation of all its British board members over the brutal repression of protests against the Damascus regime.
Meanwhile, India's outdated narcotics law (passed under pressure from the US) and lack of training in palliative care mean that while an illegal drug trade flourishes, medical patients are unable to get the painkillers they need.
The new owners took advantage of Egypt's reformed labour laws, pushed through under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which enabled bosses to place workers on temporary contracts with few benefits or protections.
