Sentences with phrase «cave in to the pressures of»

And I am proud that I didn't cave in to the pressures of others around us to do what they felt was right; instead I followed my heart as I gently nurtured all of my babies.

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However, for copyright opponents in Canada, such as commentator and law professor Michael Geist, we can expect that any acceptance of such measures would be criticized as «caving» to US pressure.

I find her willingness to convert even though she questions the catholic church's positions on contraception, hom.ose.xuality, and «other aspects of religious liberty» a little bothersome, and I really hope she's not just caving in to pressure in order to get married.

Zealous prosecutors claimed to be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»

Great — so, either these four young men never were abused, but simply saw an opportunity to shake down an individual with a questionable reputation (the «where there's smoke» strategy), and Pastor Long either caved in to the pressure, or sought an expedient route (possibly used before) to make the problem go away; OR, these really are four young men who've been abused, but rather than make the pastor answer for what he did to them in a court of law, and spare other young men in the future the trauma they experienced, they allowed their silence to be bought.

I learned most meaningfully from another woman the destructive force of sexuality out of control when I myself was under considerable pressure to cave in to a man's sexual demands.

The US House of Representatives has caved in to pressure from the meat industry and stopped promoting Meatless Mondays in its cafeterias.

We've become a nation of cowards, constantly caving in to pressure tactics from the LGBT community and their allies in the media because we don't want to be labeled as «bigoted».

Moyes and Van Gaal appear to have caved in to the demands of supporters, buckled under the pressure if you like.

The problem in recent years is that this is that time of the season when we cave in to pressure & bow out of contention... If we can come out of Stoke with a result, then we can surely consider ourselves true contenders!

They had been the subject of intense debate between George Osborne and the DWP during the spending review period, which saw the chancellor finally cave in to pressure to allow Mr Duncan Smith to fund the switchover from the current system to the new one.

«The government should come clean with commuters that this is a direct result of their decision to cave in to pressure from the private train companies to let them hike ticket prices beyond the so - called cap.»

Greg Clark caved in after four days of pressure in an interview on Sunday to reveal some details of how the government convinced the Japanese manufacturer to produce a fleet of new vehicles at its Sunderland plant.

When the IRS rightly tried to prevent this, howls of partisan persecution went up, and the Obama administration caved in to the political pressure, removing all pretense of a non-bribery fueled system.

For Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the thing to underline was his hard - line challenge to Washington Republicans, who he said were caving in the face of Democratic pressure.

Following Wednesday's mass shooting of 17 people at a school in Parkland, Fla., the Democrat said «Congress has caved over and over again to enormous pressure from the NRA.»

He thanked members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state and Nigeria at large for not caving in to pressure.

He has caved in to pressure from his Lib Dem coalition partners and a storm of protest over the crackdown, aimed at saving # 2billion a year.

In spite of my loud and legal protestations that the vote should not be added to the tally, the RO on intimidation by the NDC Regional Chairman and his Metro Director caved in to their pressure — collating invalid resultIn spite of my loud and legal protestations that the vote should not be added to the tally, the RO on intimidation by the NDC Regional Chairman and his Metro Director caved in to their pressure — collating invalid resultin to their pressure — collating invalid results.

Earlier this year the Department of the Environment caved in to pressure from thousands of sufferers and commissioned the Building Research Establishment near Watford to find out what it is that people hear.

Others would likely cave to pressure from a minority of ideologically - minded parents not to teach the material but to avoid what is «controversial,» which in this context means well - established, mainstream science.

Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases by Nancy Appleton, PhD shows how the body's immune system is supposed to work and how it caves in under the pressure of the wrong foods, generating abnormal quantities of inflammatory compounds.

At least I'd like to think so, given the folks involved in it, though I confess that Helgeland and Weitz both have spotty track records and more than enough evidence of caving under studio pressure.

Unions will, of course, object to the use of litigation for political purposes, but that has been the strategy of school - finance litigants for decades: use a lawsuit to pressure the legislature to cave in to your demands.

This has been a thorn in the side of past Coalition and Labor governments, which have consistently caved to pressure from vested interests.

On the other end of the political spectrum, the head of the state's chapter of the Eagle Forum, a conservative group, said the governor caved in to political pressures.

Finally caving in to peer pressure, the Koreans at Kia have given us a full set of images on what's to be their star attraction at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

When a school in Idaho caved to parent pressure and removed Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian from the curriculum, two concerned citizens launched a crowdfunding campaign to purchase 350 free copies of the book, which were distributed with the help of Reclaimed Books and high schooler Brady Kissel; the publisher, Hachette, gave an additional 350 copies of the book to the cause.

This doesn't answer your question, but as an aside, it's important to understand that your second and third bullet points are completely incorrect; while it used to be true that Swiss bank accounts often came with «guarantees» of neutrality and privacy, in recent years even the Swiss banks have been caving to political pressure from many sides (especially US / Obama), with regards to the most extreme cases of criminals.

Capitol insiders say McCallum caved in to a last - minute phone blitz by the Dog Federation of Wisconsin, which also pressured big Republican donors.

«Unfortunately, it appears that the agency caved to pressure from snake breeders in its decision not to restrict trade in the boa constrictor — a snake that is clearly damaging to U.S. wildlife,» Collette Adkins, an attorney and biologist at the center focusing on the protection of reptiles and amphibians, said in a statement.

Giaever was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH «not to cave in to this pressure.»

They have ways of explaining away the facts: the scientists have distorted their results to obtain more research funding; other scientists in possession of the truth have been silenced; governments have caved in to pressure from environmentalists.

Happer was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH «not to cave in to this pressure.»

«We are very much in the middle of an existential fight over the future of customer - sited solar in the U.S. and, as the state with by far the biggest solar industry and over a quarter million solar roofs already, all eyes are on the CPUC to see whether the agency will continue to stand for solar progress and customer choice, or cave to that utility pressure.»

Soon was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH «not to cave in to this pressure.»

Instead of caving in to the fishing - industry pressure on the issue, Damanaki has vowed to move forward with the discards ban — saying «time is running out» to make «radical reform» — while offering fishermen an alternative source of income.

Milloy was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH «not to cave in to this pressure.»

Harris was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH «not to cave in to this pressure.»

Labelled «the Fall Guy» by the Guardian, Wardle was further described as «a man who will go down in history for caving in to political pressure to drop the investigation of the arms giant BAE over alleged bribes to Saudi Arabia.»

Caving to customer pressure after admitting that the Santander Group began using Blockchain technology in the fourth quarter of 2017 to reduce costs and make cross-border payment transactions more efficient, Banco Santander - Portugal changed its policy about shutting down its customer's cross-border cryptocurrency trades at foreign cryptocurrency exchanges like Luxembourg - based Bitstamp and US - based Coinbase.