Tests should communicate lessons about rights and democracy, that is, politics not about lifestyles or the supposed core content of a national culture (on which established members of a host country themselves would probably be hard pressed to reach consensus).

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.

And no one is deceived.

Regardless of whether Greece will or should default on its debts or restructure payments under some euphemism the banking system s lack of capital means that credit throughout the eurozone will be under pressure.

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.

They were afraid someone might hurt me.

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.

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Many of them are harassed and discriminated against.

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

It will be evaluated again in 2005.

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.

Consider also what is happening to private consumption and retail sales.

Those who encroached upon it were punished.

Fellow activists believe he has been subjected to severe torture since his arrest.

The world as a whole has also become aware of the risks to which young people are exposed.

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

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.

The developed wafer is then exposed to acids or other chemicals.

The disorder generally emerges when the child is first introduced to writing.

Otherwise the North South Agreement may start to unravel.

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

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

But the Iranian government is under economic and political pressure to supply increasing amounts of electricity to its growing population and fragile economy.

Under pressure, deputies filed a request to open it, the first step in the procedure to create a CPI.

However, the Committee notes that, as recognized by the State party, the social services are under a tremendous resource strain, in particular the health service.

Nowhere in East Asia has government been demonized.