Sentences with phrase «come under more pressure»

As the article points out, in light of that trend to strike down tough - on - crime legislations, those responsible for choosing appropriate candidates for the bench have come under more pressure to pick judges who defer to Parliament.

In addition, as the economy and corporate profit growth slow, firms rated B and below will come under more pressure to meet their obligations, warns S&P.

When interest rates rise due to a healthier economy, these defensive companies come under more pressure because of increased borrowing costs.

Ninety four per cent of public spending cuts are yet to hit the UK, and the public sector is due to come under more pressure in the next few years.

The yen is one of the top picks this year in the currency market as the dollar comes under more pressure, says Patrick Bennett of CIBC.

Oxfam came under more pressure after its chief executive compared the response to the recent scandal, to being as if workers had «murdered babies in their cots.»

A similar approach is now happening with the Californian brands, the top tier of which is also making its way into the fast - growing China market where French and Italian wines at the high end are coming under more pressure.

Now, this statistic can be warped if one team comes under more pressure than another.

Not exact matches

More than one third of the people in Hong Kong will get a cash handout of up to $ 510, after the city's administration came under heavy pressure to share some of its $ 17.6 billion surplus.

Set - top streaming boxes are thus coming under pressure from both ends — from smaller, cheaper and more convenient USB - like dongles, and «smart» televisions with software and interfaces that are indeed smarter, as opposed to the dog's breakfast that many of them have been so far.

Michael Dell has been advised to raise his $ 24.4 billion offer for Dell Inc., coming under further pressure as billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he had committed more than $ 3 billion to back an alternative proposal.

British inflation fell to its lowest level in more than 12 years in November, coming in at half the Bank of England's two percent target and leaving it under no pressure to raise interest rates anytime soon.

Tech companies have long resisted outside intervention in how their sites should be policed, but have come under increasing pressure from Western governments to do more to remove extremist content following a wave of militant attacks.

Tech companies have long resisted outside intervention in how their sites should be policed, but have come under increasing pressure from Western governments to do more.

Global Brand Building Officer Marc Pritchard has pushed for a faster shift toward programmatic digital buying in recent months, said people familiar with the matter, which comes as P&G has been under investor pressure to get more from its ad budget amid slower growth.

The company also came under the scrutiny of Congress once more and that pressure, which came from subcommittees in both the House and Senate and from both political parties, appears to have paid off.

A government which borrows in its own currency and encourages private borrowers to do the same has more options when its exchange rate comes under downward pressure.

Lately, that same resiliency — or more appropriately, complacency — has come under pressure.

In my note, (It Was Barzini All Along), I'm not asking whether the growth rate in this EM country or that EM country will meet expectations, or whether the currency in this EM country or that EM country will come under more or less pressure.

More recently, Twitter shares have come under pressure in the face of concerns about the company's ability to make money.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it will soon tweak its Happy Meals, reducing the french fry portion by more than half and automatically adding apples to the popular children's meals, after coming under pressure from consumer groups to provide healthier fare.

The New Zealand dairy co-operative's chairman, John Wilson, said farmers» incomes continued to come under pressure but Fonterra's focus on higher value and more profitable products had helped mitigate the fallout from the bleak global outlook.

Analysts say TCCC is coming under greater pressure to roll out more low - sugar soft drinks because sales of full - sugar beverages and drinks flavoured with additives such as aspartame are falling in developed countries.

But agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank were more cautious, forecasting Australian cattle prices to remain high for the next six to 12 months, but warning they will then come under pressure as global beef production, and total animal protein production, increases.

As companies in all parts of the fresh produce business come under greater pressure to provide faster, more flexible and more predictable supply, the importance of strategic partnerships between these different players is also increasing.

Its obvious he couldn't care less what the fans think he thinks the club is his he treats the club like his and no one challenges him, he comes out and says he had many opportunities to leave but remained loyal to the club he remained loyal because he's highly paid and under absolutely no pressure to deliver success and if he stays we all know its more of the same next season.

Firstly, they don't want to lose the Belgian international at all and they would come under pressure to keep him in that event, but he is surely worth much more than that if he was to leave the north London outfit.

They've fulfilled a dream because most of the time players want to come to a big club in England, and they could be under much more pressure than they're used to.

If you believe the Arsenal transfer rumours that were coming out of Spain a couple of days ago concerning our fleet footed right back Hector Bellerin, the club and Arsene Wenger have just eight more days to hold out under the transfer pressure from his former and boyhood club FA Barcelona.

«We did that well but at 2 - 0 at half - time we came out in the second half much more to protect our advantage than to continue to play and put them under pressure.

That puts them under pressure, it makes them come out a bit more as well.

«It was a match where I felt more pressure in any Ryder Cup than I felt heading into this one because of the last two years and the buildup,» said Mickelson, who came under fire for dissing 2004 Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton after doing the same to Tom Watson two years ago at Gleneagles.

We lacked leadership in the CM and I also think that Coquelin and ElNeny was in the wrong roles... Coquelin broke down some of our own attacks by passing the ball right back to ElNeny which was putting him under pressure, Coquelin seemed to play a bit better when Xhaka came on and went forward a bit more.

Ever since, though, Giroud will have been keen to score number 100 and came very close a few times, but the longer it eluded him the more pressure he will have put himself under.

West Brom did so well last weekend, but their defence is going to come under a lot more pressure than what Man United's attack put them under.

Arsene Wenger on the other hand came under massive pressure after Arsenal were ripped apart by clinical Liverpool at the Emirates last weekend and now they are under even more pressure going into the game against Leicester in their pursuit of first three points of the season.

His involvement in the third was more impressive, showing great work - rate and determination to sprint after a seemingly lost cause and put Hart under pressure as he came out to clear.

on whether they should have put Jesus Navas under more pressure... When you come up against players and they're on a yellow card, you realise within the game and you know who to attack.

«To do that under pressure is even more encouraging going into a championships because you know if I'm faced with having to come from behind and really step up, I can do that and not lose focus.»

Now that little known world is coming under increasing pressure from concerned consumers who want to know more about what they are eating.

This challenges the Commission's historical position as an «honest broker» — a position that has already come under some considerable strain as the institution has come under increasing pressure from the European Council, and from the more activist EP.

But as the EU process developed over time becoming more demanding and new pro-European political forces emerged in Moldova demanding more and quicker reforms, the political calculus changed and the political alliance currently in power gravitating around the Democratic Party and backed by the controversial oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc came under increasing pressure.

Nick Clegg came under slightly more pressure than in the previous two debates, and it quickly showed.

On an even more basic level, there's the question of whether the state will actually reimburse the M.T.A. when it comes time to do so, when the governor and legislature inevitably come under pressure to find money from somewhere, as they do every time they have to make a new budget.

After becoming Prime Minister in 2010, Cameron came under fresh pressure from the new intake of Conservative MPs who were generally more eurosceptic.

He has made clear he would not stand against Mr Miliband, but might come under pressure to do so, especially if Mr Brown leads Labour into the general election — a prospect that now looks more likely than it did.

The hostile questions showed that Mr Darling will come under pressure to spell out more of «Labour's cuts» in his pre-election Budget, expected in March.

Cameron is also coming under pressure from senior Tory women to bring in all - women shortlists if the party does not get more female MPs at the next election.

In 2013 the Lord Speaker suggested that «if we don't reform and shrink our numbers, the Lords will collapse under its own weight»; last year she pointed out that debates are «coming under increasing time pressure as more members wish to speak, all to the detriment of our ability to hold the government to account» (pay wall).

Extensive Mr Coulson came under renewed pressure last week after former journalists told the New York Times that the practice of phone - hacking was far more extensive than the newspaper acknowledged at the time.