Sentences with phrase «black president pressuring»

The message to Paterson not only represents the White House trying to heavily influence a top state race, but also is a case of the first black president pressuring New York's first black governor to step aside.

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The white government chose, under intense internal and international pressure, to relinquish power, and negotiated with its former black enemies a process that led to the election of a black president, a model constitution, and relatively low casualties, considering the alternatives.

Recently pressures have been brought to bear on Congress and the president by blacks, the elderly, women, consumers, public employees, welfare mothers, the poor, atheists, militant students, homosexuals, Indians, and minorities of all sorts.

To ease pressure on the sources of the most coveted woods, like pure black ebony from Madagascar, Taylor Guitars, a top competitor of Gibson, bought a lumber mill for ebony in Cameroon and the company's president, Bob Taylor, launched a campaign to convince the industry, and guitar buyers, to get more comfortable with the streaked varieties of this wood from sustainably managed forests there.

Still, «nationally, homes remain more affordable than pre-bubble «norms,» but it's clear that the market is now experiencing the most pressure — from an affordability perspective — since the housing recovery began,» says Ben Graboske, executive vice president of Black Knight Data & Analytics.