Sentence examples for stiff pressure from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers are under stiff pressure to pass the legislation.

Unsurprisingly, Osborne is under stiff pressure from his backbenchers and the Tory press for a feel-good, giveaway package.

Toyota, as well as its Daihatsu subsidiary, faces stiff pressure from Honda, Nissan, Suzuki and others in the small-car market.

Still, Japan's publishers, which sold a combined 946 billion yen ($7.9 billion) in books in 2001, are facing stiff pressure from other media.

Its sedans and other full-size cars face stiff pressure from subcompacts and other small cars that budget-minded Japanese drivers prefer.

It is shown to tend to the conventional two-layer model in the stiff pressure relaxation limit.

Because the plates are stiff, pressures and strains at the boundaries between them often build up for centuries before getting released all at once.

OPEC faces stiff international pressure to keep oil prices low.

Neither side is listening.Under stiff American pressure, Ariel Sharon on April 9th moved his soldiers a short way out of Tulkarm and Qalqiliya, two West Bank towns.

When the eardrum is stiff, air pressure in the ear canal is increased, resulting in an increased reflection of sound by the eardrum.

Mr. Sharon has paid only the slightest heed to the administration's stiff public pressure to withdraw from Palestinian areas, and warned today that he would not leave the biggest West Bank towns "until all the terrorists there have surrendered".