Sentence examples for pressurised the from inspiring English sources

He pressurised the American into a series of unusual errors.

US diplomats privately pressurised the Bangladeshi government into reinstating a controversial coal mine which had been closed following violent protests, a leaked diplomatic cable shows.

Although it now appears a modest move, and was rejected because of the majority vote of northern members, it pressurised the British into political advance, and shook the north into accepting a faster pace towards independence.

Burnham rejected as "outrageous" and unfounded Hunt's claim that Labour ministers had pressurised the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator of NHS care in England since April 2009, to suppress findings of bad care.

He was prominent in the lobbying organisations Action on Smoking and Health and the National Heart Forum (now UK Health Forum), where he raised public awareness and he pressurised the tobacco, food and alcohol industries to stop promoting unhealthy lifestyles.

Or that in this acidulous tale of one actress (Anne Baxter) trying to steal the career of another (Davis), it was Baxter who pressurised the studio to nominate both as best actress, helping split the vote, which went to Judy Holliday instead, for the largely forgotten Born Yesterday?

"We will continue to pressurise the Russians every way we can.

"Civil society must pressurise the government to change their laws," he says.

His solicitors are also pressurising the BBC out of transmitting a Panorama programme on similar subjects.

Paula Radcliffe has vowed to lead a worldwide campaign to pressurise the World Anti-Doping Agency into applying tougher bans on drug cheats.

Gradually, though, the pool leaders got a grip on the scrum, pressurising the young Edinburgh prop Kyle Traynor.