"pressure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some want Washington to maintain economic pressures to further weaken the Soviet empire and reduce a still existing military threat.
- But some medical problems, such as high blood pressure and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), weaken the artery walls.
- That raises concerns among independent arms experts that political pressures will weaken the panel.
- Auditors may or may not be getting sharper, but pressures for good internal controls are weakening.
- Certainly, other pressures weakened Eastern over the years, notably the competition brought by deregulation.
- Lobbying pressure also weakened efforts to place controls on the sensitive software used to keep computer data and telephone communications secret.
- Critics say pressure from politicians, bureaucrats and postmasters has already weakened the privatization bill.
- However, on 11 February, the central pressure started increasing and the system gradually weakened.
- The Chechen guerrilla war can never be won, but casualties are down and international human-rights pressure is weakening.
- The low pressure eventually became occluded, weakened, and then continued to dissipate as it pushed east across northern Ontario in subsequent days.
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