"pressure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The sale had been discussed by negotiators for months, but only the last-minute pressure for more money provided the incentive for the settlement.
- But because of last-minute political pressure from Congress, where antipathy toward China runs high, the Administration backed away.
- Brathwaite acknowledged in a radio address that last-minute pressure from international church organizations and human rights organizations had influenced his decision.
- Ed Markey, a spokesman for NBC, said the network had not exerted any last-minute pressure on the starting times.
- In a sign of the intense last-minute pressure being applied, Republican leaders reversed themselves on a bill involving the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- Despite the last-minute pressure, the mayor refused to sign off on the plan.
- (He accepted but did not make it, saying he was kept away by last-minute legislative pressures.)
- It never became a reality, however, because of last-minute political pressure to keep it where it was.
- What most New Yorkers are feeling today is a red-and-green alert, the last-minute pressure of the holiday season itself.
- Mr. Lee's meeting with the President was scheduled only this week, after considerable last-minute pressure on his behalf from Congress.
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