An increase in gold imports placed further pressure on the current account balance.

I can t let these assholes squeeze people any more.

She pushed for greater integration of the European single market, while questioning whether this really required ceding more political authority to the European Commission.

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

To dampen the additional inflationary pressures implied by a weaker rupee, more aggressive fiscal retrenchment is needed.

All the other awful pressures that are driving so many women into bankruptcy will still exist, but at least more women will be facing these pressures with their eyes wide open, and, one hopes, with many better options.

As fiscal austerity means more recessionary and deflationary pressures in the short run, one would need more monetary stimulus to compensate and more domestic demand growth via delayed fiscal austerity in Germany. But the two biggest policy players in the eurozone the European Central Bank and the German government want no part of that agenda, hoping that a quarter of good GDP data makes a trend.

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.

Foreign and domestic investments could decline further as a result of uncertainty, and the region s financial sectors and stock markets could come under even more stress.

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

If Brazil s government does not tighten fiscal policy, the exchange rate will generate more inflationary pressure from the rise in prices of imported goods.

According to Gorbachev, Western pressure merely strengthens Putin, because in essence his position is very close to the aspirations of the people.

Russia and China should expect enormous pressure from Obama to do more to discourage Iran from proceeding with uranium enrichment.

If appreciation does not reduce the current account surplus and capital inflows, then the renminbi s exchange rate is bound to face further upward pressure.

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

Alternatively, if the rules were left to domestic political processes, there could be more countervailing pressure from opposing stakeholders (even though financial interests are powerful at home, too).

But such an insignificant rate hike will do little to relieve long term pressures, because investors will expect more rate hikes and move money into China, increasing upward pressure on the yuan s exchange rate.

A Euro now costs around 1.60, up from 0.90 in January 2002. Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.

And a Portuguese banker declared that, while banks should reduce their exposure to risky government bonds, government pressure to buy more was overwhelming.

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

Perhaps the release of these two very different films will lead to a further push to bring great apes within the circle of beings with moral and legal rights.

But this will create its own challenges, including recurrent inflationary pressures and surges in capital inflows, leading to greater policy experimentation.

Applying pressure won't be easy.

Obama will need firmly to support Pakistan s fragile elected government as it tries to gain control over the army and intelligence apparatus and thus reverse decades of support for militants.

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

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

Further falls in commodity prices already down 30 from their summer peak will add to these deflationary pressures.

In addition, climate change will put stress on weak governments in poor countries and may lead to an increase in the number of failed states and become an indirect source of international conflict.

With short term interest rates locked at zero, pressure for further appreciation would leave the PBC helpless to re expand the economy.

The current round of monetary easing underway in many advanced countries, together with strong expectations of renminbi appreciation, are also fueling currency speculation, placing further upward pressure on the exchange rate.

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

Popular pressure is growing

To dampen the additional inflationary pressures implied by a weaker rupee, more aggressive fiscal retrenchment is needed. Even so, a depreciated rupee will increase the burden of repaying foreign debt, and deepen the woes of domestic companies and banks.

The financing constraint was addressed with support from the Asian Development Bank.

By then, new European and American sanctions on Iranian oil exports will be in force, and the United States Congress is pushing to apply more, with influential voices there arguing that the negotiation game is over.

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

But the fact that several Asian and emerging market countries are resisting this decline by buying dollars is putting inordinate pressures on the more flexible currencies, such as the euro and the Canadian dollar, which are trading at record levels.

And, as trading accelerates, the pressures increase.

It requires more schools and fewer guns more universities and fewer aircraft carriers.

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

But external pressure is unlikely to bring it about.

And Gaza's Christian minority is not exempt A Christian student called Nadine says that she cannot hang her graduation certificate from the University of Al Azhar in her house as she is wearing the hijab in it.

In fact, he engineered an agreement to merge Citi with a large insurer illegal at the time under Glass Steagall and then pushed for the law s repeal, so that the merger could proceed.

Yet the international pressure is muted.

Education has its share of champions, but it needs more of them, from all segments of society. There will be pressures and competing interests, but the bottom line is that leaving no one behind begins with ensuring a high quality education for all.