Sentence examples for under stiff from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers are under stiff pressure to pass the legislation.

They were the heads of the national television networks, which have come under stiff official control.

Such 527 groups, named after a section of the tax code, do not necessarily fall under stiff election donor restrictions.

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

In the late 1980s, under stiff competition from states like Texas and California, Georgia wrote into law exactly what type of seeds and soil would yield its sweet Vidalia onions.

Virgin's retrenchment has seen it not just grounding its domestic flights but pulling back from destinations such as Tokyo, Mumbai and Cape Town, under stiff competition from Gulf carriers.

Unlike "listed transactions," they can be legal, but under stiffer 2004 rules aimed at combating tax shelter abuses, taxpayers still have to disclose their use to the I.R.S.

These data indicated proliferation of LM8 cells was faster and colony size was bigger under lung-mimicking conditions than under stiffer conditions.

The bird is then painted with a paste of flour, egg and onion juice, dried in the oven, a process that is repeated over and over until it is safely sealed under a stiff crust.

From a distance, I could see the Egyptian military guard scrutinizing my two daughters and me, taking in our knee-length skirts, unveiled heads, saying nothing as Daniel approached, his brow unflinching under a stiff wool beret.

The 34-year-old, winning his 149th cap, shrewdly kept his 30 metre shot low under the stiff breeze that Japan were playing into at the Newcastle Stadium but the goalkeeper and captain Ramzi Saleh seemed to dive too early and should have kept it out.