Sentence examples for pressured to pay from inspiring English sources

Is the company being pressured to pay a dividend?

There had been widespread speculation that as a commercial broadcaster ITV would be pressured to pay more than the BBC.

Then once they were heavily indebted they were pressured to pay off those debts by entering sham marriages to Asian men.

Andrew Gilligan alleged that the LDA was corruptly pressured to pay £250,000 to a "friend" of the mayor's adviser Lee Jasper.

This month two teenage boys who tried to rescue two girls from drowning were pressured to pay 50,000 yuan each to the girls' families for failing to save them.

He also challenged testimony that companies seeking contracts had felt pressured to pay for hospital officials' travel and food expenses, and even to buy tickets to a hospital dinner-dance.

Equally, the pressure to pay taxes or wages has diminished.

Mr. Kessler, the sports lawyer, said that there was immense pressure to pay big producers.

Employers have felt pressure to pay more to keep their employees from jumping to competing employers.

"You have a lot of pressure to pay the bills, to build a practice," he said.

As a result the family is still under pressure to pay off the debts.