As a result, our capacity is severely stretched.

Criminal justice systems are under increasing pressure to adapt to new conditions.

But the Iranian government is under economic and political pressure to supply increasing amounts of electricity to its growing population and fragile economy.

Individuals are encouraged to change positions regularly throughout the day to balance the muscles being used and the bones under pressure.

Fourth, rising job losses lead to greater demands for protectionist measures, as governments are pressured to save domestic jobs.

Every country that has sent troops to aid America's efforts in Iraq is under pressure, as the decision by the Philippines to withdraw its small contingent shows.

As recognized in a recent UNDP Development Effectiveness Report, Governments are under increasing pressure to include NGOs in policy formulation.

While Western firms investing in China must face the prospect of protest and criticism back home from pro Tibet campaigners, some companies are coming under pressure in China itself.

Similarly, my office defended the liberal weekly newspaper Novoe Vremya (New Times), which was being pressured by Moscow's city government on the pretext of a commercial dispute about a lease.

Though Iranians are not Arab, Arab publics in six countries also believe that Iran has the right to its nuclear program and should not be pressured to stop that program.

Specifically, a variety of social contracts for example, health care and pension entitlements, as well as unemployment benefits will come under greater strain.

If the government were to walk away now, real estate prices would fall even further, banks would come under even greater financial stress, and the economy s short run prospects would become bleaker.

Although independent central banks have been crucial in helping the region achieve macroeconomic stability over the past two decades, they, like electoral authorities, are being subjected to increasing pressure.

Fourth, rising job losses lead to greater demands for protectionist measures, as governments are pressured to save domestic jobs. This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.

Even though defense budgets are under pressure in this time of austerity, it is essential that NATO members hold the line on defense spending and are prepared to increase it when their economies recover.

China is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.

In countries like the US, where the middle class has reaped few of the benefits of globalization in the last quarter century, trade policy will be under severe pressure to provide some redress.

In a patriarchal and male chauvinist culture that constantly abuses the weakness of the woman for its own interests, Syrian refugee girls in Jordan, Libya, Turkey and Lebanon are subject to the pressures of forced marriages from Syrian or other Arab nationals under the pretext of protecting their virtue at any price.

The political obsession with a better exchange rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.

International commodity markets are under stress.

This final move was due to Soviet pressure.

Yet freedom of speech in the West is under strain.

But Japan s leaders are being squeezed from both directions.

Here, Israel may come under growing pressure from its principal ally.

Moreover, it is under extreme pressure.

Indeed, living standards have been under severe pressure since Mubarak s downfall.

Without carefully managing tropical forests 90 of which grow in developing nations that have pressure to clear the land for other economic purposes we cannot meet our global targets for reduced carbon emissions.

Banks in the eurozone came under pressure, and interbank tensions increased.

With production capacity stretched to the limit, oil prices remained vulnerable to upward pressures.

Where banks did increase their lending, it was the result of political pressure.

Governments are also equally under pressure to manage their existing resources more judiciously and expeditiously.

The country has never experienced a civil war, either. Also, Zambia does not experience monsoon season nor does it really have jungles.

Armenia was the first ex Soviet state to succumb to Putin s pressure and shun the EU Eastern Partnership.

A majority of the commissioners turned down the proposals after substantial lobbying from the mutual fund industry.

Azerbaijan bows to Turkey's pressure, asks Gulen linked 24 years old newspaper to shut down.

He represented the Party in the Dialogue Commission, which was the direct outcome of the Front s pressure against the ruling government.

The women in Bosnia were being raped.

The rights of children were regularly violated.

But the whole world, including most ASEAN countries, perceived Cambodia s stance as the result of enormous Chinese pressure.

In the developing world, women are in special jeopardy.

The Organization is under attack and from many directions.

Yet today, both are under pressure to liberalize.

Even the stronger banks are being pressed to increase their capital reserves.

Successive regimes of the 19th century responded to such pressures with a combination of halfhearted reform and repression.

When men refuse to comply, women's health is compromised.