Firms operating in competitive markets are under constant pressure to out perform each other.

It ensures that the court is not subject to undue influence or pressure.

Consider two issues that have been part of recent bilateral trade agreements pushed aggressively by the Bush administration.

The war began as part of a succession crisis in the Fatimid Caliphate, which began to crumble under the pressure of Syria and the Crusader states.

International counter narcotics policy is currently driven by pressure for rapid and visible results.

Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.

It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on, so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.

After a few weeks of war and under pressure by the United States and several Latin American nations, all fighting came to a stop.

The military courts in India are coming under extreme stress with the establishment of Armed Forces Tribunal in 2007.

Rather than taking over the state, Islamist parties have been forced by the electorate to alter their policies to account for Indonesian pluralism.

The Judicial Power could not remain indifferent to the changes and felt pressured to give them legal expression.

It is seen in ice at high pressure (Ice X), and also in the solid phase of many anhydrous acids such as hydrofluoric acid and formic acid at high pressure.

A characterization of these fibers was given as well as hypotheses for their growth in a nitrogen atmosphere at low pressures.

The German army's manpower had been severely depleted after four years of war, and its economy and society were under great internal strain.

In 2002, under pressure from international bodies, Bahrain implemented its telecommunications law which included the establishment of an independent Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

On 30 January 2005, The New York Times reported that the Qatari government, under pressure from the Bush administration, was speeding up plans to sell the station.

The author signed the document freely, and did not claim to have made the declaration in the document under any constraint or compulsion whatsoever.

Why it makes me feel so nauseous? In autumn of 2011, somewhat snowed under from internal appointments of candidates to parliament in special districts, Mr. Baupin called to ask me for help during the internal vote for our motion for the nomination of candidates.

Yet ecosystems and their goods and services are being degraded under the pressure of social and economic driving forces at national, regional and global levels.

In many racing sports an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time.

The report was revealed in September 1987 by British politician Sir Dudley Smith, under pressure from the parents of British stewardess Lyn Farthing who perished in the crash.

Sati, a now outlawed practice, expected the widow to immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly or under pressure from the family and society.

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And you have to guess my mind. So you are under tremendous pressure because I don't give you instruction, and yet, you have to guess my mind.

Blood pressure rises with age in childhood and, in children, hypertension is defined as an average systolic or diastolic blood pressure on three or more occasions equal or higher than the 95th percentile appropriate for the sex, age and height of the child.

More than 70 per cent of Cubans were born and have lived under the embargo because of their sovereign decision to defend their right to self determination and never to yield in their determination to achieve independence, social justice and equity.

The parliament was under pressure from the United States to pass legislation dealing with members of the Baath party, distribution of oil revenues, regional autonomy, and constitutional reform, by September 2007.

A long term (more than 4 weeks) low sodium diet is effective in reducing blood pressure, both in people with hypertension and in people with normal blood pressure.

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Nasser had initially rejected the plan, but conceded under pressure from the Soviet Union, which feared that escalating regional conflict could drag it into a war with the US.

The company said they based their action on Iran's non payment of in overdue payments, while other sources claim the construction was halted under pressure from the United States.

The volume of geospace defined by the magnetopause is compacted in the direction of the Sun by the pressure of the solar wind, giving it a typical subsolar distance of 10 Earth radii from thecenter of the planet.

Under pressure from the board, Watson resigned his position as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an institution that under his leadership has become one of the world s leading research and educational institutions in the biological sciences.

But when you're in a hurry or stressed out, that triggers something called the inflammatory response, which is associated with everything from Alzheimer's disease to cardiovascular disease.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

That's not going to be happening, but you can see that the line comes down faster if they're not put under international pressure, if they're allowed to pursue their own devices.

After this catastrophe, Frederick V, already in exile in The Hague, and under growing pressure from his father in law, James I, to end his involvement in the war, was forced to abandon any hope of launching further campaigns.

At a given temperature, a substance with higher vapor pressure vaporizes more readily than a substance with a lower vapor pressure.

In a geostrophic flow, instead of water moving from a region of high pressure (or high sea level) to a region of low pressure (or low sea level), it moves along the lines of equal pressure (isobars).

For almost six years now, the new reality of Kosovo and Metohija has been that one national community, the Serbian one, has been disappearing under pressure from, and violent acts by, the majority community.

Investigators couldn't find who pulled the trigger.

Moroccans have the pressure to conform.