The people s movement also took the lid off social pressures often disregarded by Nepal s elites.

Tabarrok found that social pressures resisting the use of transplant organs decreased over time as the opportunity of individual decisions increased.

The impact is not limited to economic performance and financial market movements. Slower global growth is also amplifying political pressures and, in some countries, adding to social strains both of which tend to constrain policy responses.

The main reason for child marriage in Bangladesh is societal pressure. The parents deem girls as liabilities, so many do not receive proper education.

Even though legal aid is free for both men and women, there are few women who resort to legal aid, mostly due to social and cultural pressures.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations. Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

Implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes, and of quick impact projects should therefore be expedited in order to reduce social pressures and enhance the image of the United Nations in the country.

Moreover, social pressures, the practical applications of the law, and the lack of financial resources to pay for lawyers and court fees limit women's access to the legal system.

Even at its worst, unemployment in Japan rarely exceeded 4 , owing to a combination of early retirement, social programs, work sharing, and political pressure on large employers.

Popular pressure is growing

The secretariat makes every effort to reduce such pressures, but notes that they are not entirely within its control.

And, as trading accelerates, the pressures increase.

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

Yet the international pressure is muted.

Applying pressure won't be easy.

Europe s leaders were right about the pressure.

Israel, for its part, is exerting pressure in two ways.

Chinese officials agonize over the US pressure.

Nor is this pressure confined to the United States.

This pressure for change has been building for years.

But external pressure may create new facts.

He has also worked successfully to contain inflationary pressures.

Pressures on criminal justice systems

In fact, development itself generates a number of strains on societies that lie at the very roots of conflict.

Currently, Russia s greatest economic concern is growing inflationary pressure, driven especially by food prices.

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

International pressure alone will not change this.

Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

Of course the pressure to expand is always irresistible.

Domestic political pressure became a source of heightened international tension.

Two factors are intensifying the pressure on Sarkozy.

Iraq s elections have turned up the pressure even more.

However, the pressure on staff is unsustainable.

Under growing pressure to act, Gerhard Schröder s Social Democratic government decided in 2003 to deprive millions of Germans of their second tier unemployment insurance, thus paving the way for the creation of a low wage sector, in turn reducing the rate of inflation.

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

Separatist pressures emerged in Crimea immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. They subsided after 1995 largely because the Russian separatists were divided, and Moscow, facing separatist pressures in Chechnya, showed little inclination to support them.

The real challenge in Europe is continued stagnation and rising public sector fiscal pressures in bloated welfare states with rapidly aging populations. Restoring growth, opportunity, prosperity, and financial stability will require bold solutions to five inter related problems.

The reason is not evil intent, but rather the pressure of the crisis.

In fact, under fiscal pressure, the opposite is more likely.

It will be difficult to ease these inflationary pressures this year.

We see these pressures every day in the marketplace.

Now China, India, and Japan are pressing to get in.

The impending global slowdown has intensified protectionist pressures.

Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

These pressures contributed to the American Revolutionary War.