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How to use the word Pressure in a Sentence?

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The IRA's campaign of violence was not solely responsible for achieving its aims. Political developments, international pressure, and changing attitudes within Northern Ireland all played crucial roles. However, the threat of violence and the IRA's ability to disrupt daily life certainly influenced the peace process.

Paul Bew

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22 days ago

Our experience shows that these strongmen learn from each other, they use the same laws and techniques to put journalists under pressure.

Eduardo Suárez

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The pressure is most extreme on the lower credit consumers, because not only are they dealing with the interest rate move and inflation and vehicle prices, but they may also pay a premium because their credit is not as good.

Jonathan Smoke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Governor DeSantis is a proven champion of our Constitutional right to bear arms and took action as governor to strengthen and affirm the Second Amendment, including signing constitutional carry legislation into law this month, donald Trump made promises to NRA members when he ran for office, but then as president, he caved to pressure from the Washington establishment, liberal media, and gun-grabbing Democrats and attacked the NRA, siding with liberal Democrat Senators like Chris Murphy and Dianne Feinstein in support of their gun control legislation.

Erin Perrine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Donald Trump made promises to NRA members when he ran for office, but then as president, he caved to pressure from the Washington establishment, liberal media, and gun-grabbing Democrats and attacked the NRA, siding with liberal Democrat Senators like Chris Murphy and Dianne Feinstein in support of their gun control legislation.

Erin Perrine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re entering prime leasing season in an already tight market and seasonal pressure may force new records to occur, i wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a few months where we see more record highs.

Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the great bubbles break, they do impose a lot of stress on the system, it’s like pressure behind a dam. It’s very hard to know which part will go.

Jeremy Grantham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them, i don’t think hippos are particularly aggressive, but I think when under pressure, they attack.

Rebecca Lewison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My world went dark and strangely quiet. from the waist down, I could feel the water. I could feel I was wet in the river. From my waist up, it was different. I was warm, and it wasn’t wet like the river, but it wasn’t dry either. And it was just incredible pressure on my lower back. I tried to move around; I couldn’t.

Paul Templer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The history of it’s not lost on us, we can say that. We understand what’s happening, we’re not putting any added pressure on anything. We’re not staring at our schedule, staring at our record right now. We’re just a bunch of guys in our locker room going out there playing the game we love and letting things take care of itself.

Brandon Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is also the high cost of securing the borders and the increase in pressure on the armed forces and security services.

Saud Al-Sharafat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have fundamentals under pressure from work from home at a time when lending is less available than [it has been] over the last decade.

Rich Hill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whatever the numbers are, they likely would be considerably lower had FDA not acquiesced to the pressure to increase access to chemical abortion at the expense of women’s safety.

Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we produce less beef, the pressure’s on for higher prices.

David Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes they’re good at that, and sometimes they aren’t. But I think they would look at this data as well as some other evidence around the job market and say, ‘Well, at least maybe we’re on a path that’s more to our liking, with respect to dampening an inflation pressure.

Mark Hamrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What a lot of school leaders have learned is don’t react quickly. You’ve got a lot of pressure to do something right away but it’s really better to be thoughtful, you should assume that you don’t have a good picture of what really happened and what didn’t. Be very skeptical about claims that this saves lives or people died because of that. In Tennessee no one will have a really accurate picture of what happened there for months.

Michael Dorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re under a lot of pressure.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just, ‘ This feels right. And so we ’ll just see how it goes without labeling it – without trying to put any pressure on the situation. And we ’ll just see what develops from here, ’.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s some pressure now on Justice to bring this to a conclusion. To me, based on the way it is shaping up, it is a dead bang obstruction of justice case.

John Jones III

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Small companies are afraid they will face( worker shortages) due to childcare leave, and this puts pressure on young fathers who want to take childcare leave in future.

Hisakazu Kato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you can manage the relationship between Beijing and Taipei well, then that will – to some extent – reduce the pressure from that kind of dollar diplomacy, if both sides can reach some sort of tacit understanding … then we will avoid that kind of bad situation.

Taipei Mayor Chiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Social media is really cutting into their lives, they feel like it’s this pressure that takes away from the time to actually live.

Carmella Guiol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The proposed restructuring will alleviate the company’s pressure of offshore indebtedness and facilitate the company’s efforts to resume operations and resolve issues on shore.

Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg/Getty Images Evergrande

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are far too many people in Saudi detention who don’t have the benefit of US citizenship to draw attention to their cases. Almadi was wrongfully detained, reportedly tortured, and released only after tireless campaigning by his son and international pressure, almadi’s release shows that strategic pressure works, and US officials should continue to press for release of prisoners and lifting of travel bans.

Abdullah Alaoudh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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