In fact, it is these tabloids, responding to market pressure, that have started to take on responsibility as public watchdogs.

China will most likely regard the cooperation agreement recently announced by the Japanese and Indian defense ministers as a response to US pressure.

A larger state can inevitably do more to control the economy, and hence is exposed to the costly temptation to intervene in response to political pressure from vested interests.

International commodity markets are under stress.

This final move was due to Soviet pressure.

As a result, our capacity is severely stretched.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Response of the international community

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

Such contributions had to ensure that assistance programmes responded fully to the needs of beneficiary countries.

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.

Organizational response to the changing environment

II Response of the international community

The African media s response to the massacres and rapes in Darfur has been equally muted.

This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage.

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Positive responses from national leaders

Positive responses from some religious authorities

International terrorism requires an international response.

This situation requires an urgent response.

Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational and powerful response.

Both developments suggest that China will be under renewed pressure to nudge its currency sharply upward.

It was important to moderate the competition in order to allow pressure for change to build up from within the Soviet bloc.

Pressure from the international community and the presence on the ground of African Union military observers have had some effect, but not enough.

In response, China s government acted almost instantly.

The response from the communities is encouraging.

The present note is in response to that request.

The response of the international community was prompt and generous.

Information submitted in response to General Recommendation 17.

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