Sentence examples for under heightened pressure from inspiring English sources

Jet East has been cleaning up its act over the past year under heightened pressure, he said.

While Mr. Winterkorn may find himself under heightened pressure, he retains a powerful ally in Ferdinand Piëch, a former chief executive of Volkswagen and a member of the Porsche family.

The public skepticism made it important for the government, now under heightened pressure from the United States and from neighboring countries, to seek formal legal authority to step up its efforts against terrorism, officials said.

IN the wake of multibillion-dollar accounting scandals in American business, companies are under heightened pressure to make sure that their financial results do not paint a misleadingly rosy picture.

But it is almost inevitable that lenders like these and their borrowers will be under heightened pressure in the next year.

Retailers and fast-food companies have come under heightened pressure from employees and worker groups to increase their baseline pay as Congress has stalled any efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, which stands at a paltry $7.25.

In Moscow, signs of heightened pressure are already appearing.

In addition to heightened pressure on journalists and opposition figures, Mr. Shevchuk and other musicians describe a kind of soft censorship on performers that accompanied Mr. Putin's rise to power and has continued under President Medvedev.

Some of those on the list said the heightened pressure could force them from the country.

There was the heightened pressure to score as the defense labored through injuries.

So who should take responsibility for rising to this heightened pressure?