Sentence examples for successfully pressured from inspiring English sources

Still, outraged shoppers have successfully pressured companies in the past.

The senator's staff successfully pressured the stations not to run the ads.

In the 1990s, Landau also successfully pressured the district to increase its hiring of minority teachers.

Wealthy trustees, however, successfully pressured them to stay on the sidelines.

Hispanic groups successfully pressured Mr. Burns to re-edit some episodes to add several Latinos.

That administration successfully pressured Israel not to respond to Saddam Hussein's Scud-missile attacks.

But the Internet industry objected, and Congress successfully pressured the Postal Service to abandon it.

Mr. Stopp has already successfully pressured German publications to remove the killers' names from their online coverage.

"They successfully pressured Brazil into passing the so-called 'Budweiser bill', allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums.

It has also successfully pressured Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to withdraw their services from WikiLeaks, as well as the Swiss bank PostFinance, to close Assange's account.

In 2008, American officials successfully pressured Musharraf to remove Taj, suspecting that he had been involved in the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, earlier that year.