Sentence examples for shadowy pressure from inspiring English sources

All this fueled popular resentment of partitocrazia, increasingly frequent corruption scandals, and the clandestine influence of Masonic or other shadowy pressure groups.

Peter Righton was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a shadowy pressure group which in the 1970s and 80s tried to legitimise and decriminalise sex between children and adults.

Updated at 2.48pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.26am BST10 26 Kirsty Hughes, chief executive of Index on Censorship, has put out this statement following Alan Rusbridger's revelations about how pressure from "shadowy Whitehall figures" led to the Guardian destroying hard drives in a basement.

WASHINGTON ― A Democratic Party think tank is behind a shadowy social media campaign pressuring Democratic lawmakers to oppose congressional resolutions to bring back net neutrality rules.

Now, back home, he is being pressured by a shadowy organization to hunt down a newly discovered witness to that atrocity (played by Tory Kittles).

The "Buffy" alumna Eliza Dushku plays Echo, a troubled young woman who is pressured by a shadowy corporation to donate her body to fringe science: lab workers imprint Echo with a new personality.

But many Hasidim say they have seen or heard how a shadowy group of men seeks to pressure parents to rein in children who wear dresses too short or stockings too thin, or who chat on cellphones with friends of the opposite sex.

Anyway, a shadowy yet powerful organization begins to exert pressure on King Theoden of Rohan to bend to its will -- yes, the wizard Saruman and his minions at Isengard, better known to us as the International Monetary Fund.

Still, inflationary pressures are no more than shadowy.

DUBLIN — For decades, Irish society stigmatized unwed mothers, pressuring them to give up their newborns, often in shadowy adoptions.

Amid all this confusing variety, however, there is pressure toward order internally, from the arraignment of vice and appeal to virtue, and externally, from the often shadowy dramatic situation that frames the poem.