But rising pressure over the past two decades from civil society groups, the media, and more enlightened politicians is finally showing results.

The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.

Apart from its moral implications, such a society would face a classic dilemma how to reconcile the relentless pressure to consume with stagnant earnings.

Civil society could also be more active and, for example, exert pressure on the Caterpillar corporation to stop providing bulldozers to the Israeli army.

I join the appeal of Palestinian women to Israeli society, particularly to Israeli women, to pressure the Government of Israel to end the occupation.

Indeed, steps by the authorities to mollify public opinion will continue to be accompanied by increased pressure on the opposition and on civil society organizations.

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.

Sound pressure level Sound pressure is the difference, in a given medium, between average local pressure and the pressure in the sound wave.

Jomhour says that there is a growing pressure against media,journalists and civil society in Venezuela.The blogger writes that this country looks like Iran more and more.

But there is also the intense pressure under which Greek society is now functioning and the extraordinary courage with which ordinary citizens are coping with economic disaster.

The Electoral Reform Society is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom, believed to be the oldest organisation concerned with electoral systems in the world.

The pressure gradient between this region and the ambient pressure will propel matter toward the low pressure area.

The airspeed is derived from the difference between the ram air pressure from the pitot tube, or stagnation pressure, and the static pressure.

Measurement and units Vapor pressure is measured in the standard units of pressure.

Diplomatic pressure needed

For a vapor bubble to expand, the temperature must be high enough that the vapor pressure exceeds the ambient pressure (the atmospheric pressure, primarily).

Domestic pressure could very well bring down the regime, but international pressure will not.

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

The policy of university education initiated in the 1960s responded to population pressure and the belief that higher education was a key to social justice and economic productivity for individuals and for society.

Dania felt the pressure.

Social pressure for release?

Popular pressure is growing

formula_4Where formula_5 is dynamic pressure.

gas pressure bottles, and

The force pushing the water towards the low pressure region is called the pressure gradient force.

A back pressure valve on the gas outlet to maintain a steady pressure in the vessel.

One area of concern for civil society nowadays is the press and new media. In many places today information is flowing more than ever, but mass media are under both political and financial pressure.

Peer pressure now matters, too.

Applying pressure won't be easy.

Reducing demographic pressure on forests.

The exhaust pressure is controlled by a regulating valve to suit the needs of the process steam pressure.

At the elevated pressure in the bottle, more carbon dioxide can dissolve in water than at atmospheric pressure.

A systolic pressure of 40 mm Hg typically implies a mean pressure of more than 25 mm Hg.

(iii) Pressure sensors shall, where possible, be subject to a minimum pressure force appropriate for the intended target.

However, they had to be able to believe in that return currently, there were very few prospects and virtually no paid jobs, so there was little pressure on young adults to assume their role in society.

While the process of selecting delegates was subjected to both political pressure and intimidation, the 1,500 emergency Loya Jirga delegates (including over 200 women) ultimately constituted a representative sampling of Afghan society and its political balance.

These arteries distend when the blood pressure rises during systole and recoil when the blood pressure falls during diastole.

Cerebral perfusion pressure, or CPP, is the net pressure gradient causing cerebral blood flow to the brain (brain perfusion).

Two booster stages were added to the LP (low pressure) compressor, which increased the overall pressure ratio to 29.3.

It's pressure sensitive, you can notice.

Let me take your blood pressure.

Moreover, it is under extreme pressure.

Yet the international pressure is muted.

Moroccans have the pressure to conform.

Several environmental factors influence blood pressure.