Conversion would occur outside the market, and thus would not put downward pressure on the dollar.

This encourages short side speculation, which places downward pressure on the underlying bonds.

As long as interest rates remain low, there is no downward pressure on public investment.

Actual appreciation would lead to actual deflation and further downward pressure on domestic interest rates.

Thus, deflationary pressure will to some extent result in downward quantity adjustments, which will deepen the real crisis.

A disorderly default, and the resulting downward pressure on the euro, would unavoidably cause Chinese investments to lose value.

To halt this downward spiral, Ireland s risk of insolvency needs to be put to rest.

This downward pressure on prices has allowed Western central banks to follow expansionary monetary policies, underpinning higher employment and growth.

Trade and immigration (legal and illegal), if left unchecked, will continue to exert downward pressure on rich countries labor markets.

This will certainly put pressure on the government.

Eventually, central banks will need to exit quantitative easing and zero interest rates, putting downward pressure on risky assets, including commodities.

The Great Recession has exacerbated inequality, with cutbacks in basic social expenditures and with high unemployment putting downward pressure on wages.

Tighter regulation of lending standards has shut out an important source of global investment demand, putting downward pressure on interest rates.

Illegal activity can also put pressure on forest resources.

After all, according to conventional wisdom, global competition moves jobs to low cost countries and puts downward pressure on wages everywhere else.

These actions put the US under growing pressure to act.

Thus, emerging economies with large twin deficits and other macroeconomic fragilities may experience further downward pressure on their financial markets and growth rates.

So, while this latest bear market rally may continue for a bit longer, renewed downward pressure on stocks and other risky assets is inevitable.

This may put particular pressure on developing countries' domestic regulatory frameworks.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

This has put immense pressure on Venezuela s dollar pegged currency, the bolívar.

Indeed, in some areas, prices are again under downward pressure, which could worsen if mortgage finance becomes less readily available and more expensive, as is possible.

America will, of course, continue to put pressure on its allies, but democracy has a way of limiting the effectiveness of such pressure.

The United States, in particular, put enormous pressure on Japan to take expansive policy measures to relieve the pressure on the international system.

Those who fear geopolitical catastrophe will sell assets, putting downward pressure on their value, only if there are other, safer assets that they see that they can buy.

That will put more pressure on the country s already limited stock of agricultural land.

But ordinary people were put under tremendous pressure to adjust quickly, and sometimes painfully.

In the run up to that conference, a global campaign put pressure on governments.

China s annual economic growth has slowed to around 7.5 , while Indonesia and India and, outside Asia, Brazil and South Africa are experiencing sharp downward pressure on their exchange rates.

Hamas has put pressure on all resistance groups in Gaza to refrain from provoking Israel.

Italy s Downward Spiral

Importing of forest products, resulting from local or regional scarcities, may put pressure on other regions.

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

The role of a free press should be to put pressure on public officials to behave better.

They used Twitter to investigate the matter and put pressure on the government to halt the transfer.

The international community must put decisive and concerted pressure on the parties to achieve the above objectives.

At the same time, there are fears that liberalization would put pressure on mom and pop shops .

There was huge downward pressure on manufacturing prices from low wage Asian economies, while unemployment in the developed world averaged 5 6 about twice as high as in the earlier post war decades.

As global environmental problems frequently create additional stresses on the local resource bases of the world s poorest people, GNP growth in rich countries can fuel downward pressure on the wealth of the poor.

Pressure needs to be put on these international agencies to ensure they bring their metadata up to standard.

China s economy is caught in the crossfire of structural and cyclical nbsp headwinds. Structural pressures have nbsp arisen from the shift to a new model of services and consumer led growth, and cyclical pressures stem from nbsp a tough global environment that has nbsp put downward pressure on the old model of nbsp export and investment led growth.

The US budget deficit has been on a downward trend for now, helped by both higher revenues and lower pressure on spending (for example, payments to the unemployed have fallen as joblessness has declined).

Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.

This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration.