The International Accounting Standards Board, which sets rules for many countries, itself hurriedly changed an aspect of its market-value rule under pressure from the president of France.
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Volunteer physicians, unfamiliar with military rules and under pressure to enlist as many men as possible, passed recruits who never should have stepped foot into camp.
The senior defense official who briefed reporters was granted anonymity under Pentagon-imposed ground rules, although under pressure from reporters, Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said that the official could be somewhat further identified as "also a lawyer".
In a letter sent to the I.R.S. on Monday, Senate Republicans warned the agency against changing the rules under political pressure.
Crucially, it also proposed giving customers the right to waive the rule.Under pressure, the NYSE has brought in a new chief executive, John Thain, and rapidly restructured.
Accounting-rule makers, under pressure from investors and regulators, are moving closer to forcing companies to book options as costs.
For almost two to three centuries the non-European societies came under direct or indirect colonial rule and under pressure, from both within and without, succumbed to the material and technological edifice and cultural onslaught of the West.
He resigned his post as military chief Wednesday, after eight years of military rule, under heavy pressure at home and abroad.
