"At no time have we received pressure from any club.
"But something that bothers me is to receive pressure from overseas about what we should discuss.
Bragg acknowledges that he's received pressure to make the interviews more personal, less work-based.
A band like Kids These Days may receive pressure to be "more financially efficient," he added.
And trainers are often caught in the middle, receiving pressure from coaches and even from owners to influence doctors' decisions.
In surveys and interviews, some gay men say that where once they received pressure from sexual partners to use condoms, they are now pushed to avoid them.
However, Place claims the Whitney may have chosen to cancel after receiving pressure from individuals or groups opposed to her Gone With the Wind project.
The Tokyo police strenuously deny having cozy ties with the sound truck operators or receiving pressure from above to go lightly on them.
Yasir Arafat, who has been locked in a tango of wills with his prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, received pressure Thursday from a normally friendly diplomatic source, Javier Solana, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, the Palestinian Authority's largest benefactor.
"We have drastically reduced -- I do not want to say eliminated -- possible influencing of the judges," said Cinquanta, who added, "Please, understand, in the past some judges did receive pressure to influence scores".
Yes — when you're unfamiliar with the route and you're receiving pressure and you're looking at a giant stack of mail, thinking, "Will I ever finish?" But I haven't gone postal.
