Sentence examples for pressure to lay from inspiring English sources

When I was a magazine editor I'd come under annual pressure to lay off our 50-something reporter.

The new debt has lower interest payments -- which is good for the economy, since it improves those companies' balance sheets and lessens the pressure to lay off employees.

"THE CHICKEN SHOW," about a chicken, Henrietta, who is under great pressure to lay an egg or become dinner to a mean old farmer.

Faced with rising pressure to lay out the strongest possible case on Iraq, the administration is engaged in a fierce internal debate over how much intelligence information about Iraq's weapons programs to release to the public or to United Nations inspectors searching for incriminating evidence, officials say.

Those businesses, in turn will see increasing pressure to lay off workers or further automate.

Having an "open-door chain of command" between their two offices, the former adviser said, can lead to a spokesman feeling pressure to lie to protect the president.

He also acknowledged that some officers in the department might feel pressure to lie in order to corroborate a partner's story.

The ministry's statement indicated other airline employees also faced pressure to lie to the investigators but did not identify them.

In other words, Princess Kiko, who is 39, with daughters who are 14 and 11, may have felt pressure to lie back and think of Japan.

The government's star wit ness was Douglas Faneuil, Bacanovic's former assistant, who testified that he had been ordered by his boss to pass the tip on to Stewart and later put under pressure to lie.

Institutional and political pressures to "lay off" tough regulation will remain — most notably in the fair weather that inevitably precedes the storm.