Eventually, world pressure subsides and the freeze fails to materialize.

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.

NEW YORK Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change.

Today s inflationary pressures are partly the result of the lagged impact of the stimulus package that China adopted in 2009 to fight off the effects of the global financial crisis.

These countries can, of course, resist upward pressure on their currencies by accumulating foreign exchange reserves, like they did before the global financial crisis.

Popular pressure is growing

The global campaign for debt relief for poor countries was led by non governmental organizations that successfully mobilized young people in rich countries to put pressure on their governments.

At the international level, cooperation and coordination among countries are needed to counteract the pressures of the current race to the bottom in the global competition for investment and markets.

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.

The suffering that so many people are enduring leads to pressure for reform, and Obama has shrewdly transformed these pressures into a political force. All this shows that reflection on common ethical values, a global ethic, is needed more urgently now than ever before.

Yet the international pressure is muted.

Applying pressure won't be easy.

At the same time, financial crises in a number of emerging markets could prove contagious, placing additional stress on global financial markets.

Second, the perception of weakness and division in the WTO will make it far harder to resist protectionist pressures worldwide, especially if the global economy slows.

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.

Likewise, domestic pressure has caused Obama to neglect trade issues. The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.

Trust busters argue that such Chinese walls always break down under pressure, owing to huge shareholder demand for universal banks to boost profits at the expense of a sound commercial banking core.

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.

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 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.