Sentence examples for pressured to act from inspiring English sources

Why is Congress being pressured to act now?

Mr. Kim of Korea University said one possibility was that the North felt pressured to act by this week's visit by China's leader to the United States.

The big break in this story came last night when Didier Gailhaguet, the head of the French Olympic team, said that a French judge had been pressured to "act in a certain way," presumably to vote for the Russian pair.

And he pledged to stop "arrests and summons quotas," explaining that he thought many police officers felt pressured to act by commanders who are overly concerned about keeping their statistics up.

Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever dig in on this topic, and they identify a number of reasons companies are being pressured to act with an increasing short-term focus.

They assumed it would be too complicated for the American public, and they felt pressured to act in March 2003 before the summer heat arrived, which could slow down the U.S. troops on the ground, and Karl Rove wanted to get some great photo ops, like the "Mission Accomplished" stunt, before the 2004 re-election cycle.

Trump faces pressure to act.

But the pressure to act is increasing.

He says the government is under increasing pressure to act.

Clinton said he was under pressure to act against Saddam Hussein.

This creates a perceived social pressure to act.