Sentences with phrase «intense pressure over»

YouTube superstar Felix «PewDiePie» Kjellberg was under intense pressure over the weekend, during a high - stakes game of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Leadsom had also faced intense pressure over claims that she exaggerated her CV.

After days of intense pressure over phone hacking and corruption allegations, Rupert Murdoch has made a dramatic U-turn by withdrawing his bid to take full control of the broadcaster BSkyB.

Pushing through Lansley's reforms may make him even more unpopular - but Cameron will know he has some experience of dealing with intense pressure over a prolonged period of time.

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A year from elections, Hollande is under intense pressure as opponents accuse his administration of police failings over the tragedy.

Beijing's list of 106 products included the biggest U.S. exports to China, reflecting its intense sensitivity to the dispute over American complaints that it pressures foreign companies to hand over technology.

Republicans are under intense pressure to pass a tax bill or face ending a year of near - complete control over the federal government without a a single major legislative achievement to bring voters and donors.

U.S. and global stock markets have come under intense selling pressure this week, as concerns over a North Korea standoff dampen investor sentiment.

In the fourth quarter, Goodman announced price increases within its bakery and grocery business — an important milestone given intense price pressure in these businesses over the previous two years.

Treasury chairman Paul Rayner has been under intense pressure after a series of missteps at the world's largest stand - alone wine company over the past 15 months, with a change of ownership now highly likely for the owner of Penfolds, Rosemount, Wolf Blass, Wynns and Lindemans.

While the heralded quarterback prospects in this year's draft faced similar pressures over the course of the 2017 season — prime - time games against marquee opponents, an intense spotlight, minute criticisms — Darnold had a different kind of obstacle ahead of him on this fall afternoon.

In the second half of Chelsea's 2 - 1 victory over Norwich on Tuesday, the Canaries were putting intense pressure on the champions and Diego Costa was totally isolated up front.

The first period featured intense pressure from the Blaugrana, who launched a barrage of attacks and scored the first goal after just three minutes thanks to Luis Suárez's effort to win a header and get the ball over the line.

The Dark Blues» defence was ferocious throughout and managed to keep James Wades men in the game when full back Charlie Amesbury was held up over the line following a period of intense pressure.

(She does sleep through occasionally in cluster of 3 or 4 nights but it's been over 2 weeks now since she has...) I don't mind feeding her as I don't work now and she goes right to sleep after nursing for 15 minutes... but all I hear «out there» is I MUST reduce her night feeds so I feel very intense external pressure.

I had a difficult time talking because the contractions were so intense and at this point I was bent over the birth ball trying to get the pressure off my back.

The home secretary was under intense pressure this autumn after it emerged that border checks had been lifted over the summer, potentially allowing thousands of illegal immigrations and criminals into the country.

Campaign groups like the Coalition For Marriage are placing intense pressure on backbenchers, having notched up over 600,000 signatures for their petition against same - sex marriage.

He bowed to intense pressure to quit and save his party further embarrassment and damage from the row over his payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds to his wife and two sons.

By «Ambode, history beckons» (10 November 2015), Ripples only called on Governor Ambode, then under intense pressure, to choose either the hard - won successes of most of his predecessors; or fold over, embracing the rare failure of one or two.

The incumbent President, John Mahama came under intense pressure especially from the opposition NPP to conceded defeat to the President but that was not until later in the evening when Mahama called Akufo - Addo over the phone to congratulate him on his victory.

Corbyn has faced intense pressure to act swiftly, after a week which saw Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, being suspended over antisemitic Facebook posts from 2014, before she was elected; and Livingstone taking to the airwaves to defend her with a series of bizarre remarks linking Hitler to Zionism.

Over the weekend, the influential Working Families Party endorsed Nixon despite intense pressure from the governor's office.

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats who lead the Senate in a governing coalition with the Republicans, is under intense pressure from the left over the campaign finance issue.

«Those arms races can be pretty intense and not dissimilar to things like antibiotics and bacteria, where you have a really strong, kind of do - or - die selective pressure that can accelerate the pace of evolution and intensify the changes that take place over time.»

The malarial genes under the most intense selection pressure — those with the most variation, generated over a millennium - long cat - and - mouse game with the immune system's antibody response — are the ones that encode the identifying proteins on the surface of the parasite.

With the constant stream of happy holiday photographs over social - networking sites, experts say the pressure to be in a romance this time of year has never been so intense.

Filmed over a five - year period, the two young boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while striving to overcome the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their Chicago streets.

Filmed over a five - year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighborhoods.

Shailene Woodley seems a perfect match as Gordon - Levitt's girlfriend who remains loyal even though he's unable to reveal the source of the intense pressures that plague him over their years together.

Over the last four years, teacher preparation programs have faced intense pressure to overhaul themselves.

But this book puts Cobb's life into the context of the time in which he lived — and his own complicated personality, driven by an intense rivalry with Babe Ruth as well as external pressures, like the hazing he took from the Yankees over his southern upbringing.

In January 1993 a deep storm (the most intense system of low pressure outside the tropics ever recorded over the north Atlantic) miraculously broke up the oil spilt from the tanker Braer.

The move to delay a final decision comes following intense pressure from civil society organisations and movements, as well as diverging moves from other financial institutions such as the World Bank which pledged to end support to upstream oil and gas - a highly significant move given that current support to upstream oil and gas at over $ 1 billion per year on average between Financial Year 2014 and 2016.

The answer is that while the number of hours changed from an average of 82 to 70 per week, drivers still faced intense pressure from companies to drive a «little bit» over the hours or as close to the 70 - hour mark as possible.

The pressure to sign up to an escrow agreement may be quite intense, particularly where the customer threatens to terminate its business relationship with the supplier immediately or over time.

So given that there's the same or similar number of people claiming for an injury each year (albeit the number who are doing it online, indeed more and more from mobile devices, is still increasing), and given that competitors in the PI space online have continually increasing investment to meet competing higher media prices (eg Google Adwords is becoming more expensive for personal injury keywords — in the States some keywords eg «car crash attorney» ones are over $ 500 per click without any guarantee of making that a converted enquiry), and given more entrants into the market each year, pressures for many PI firms at the moment are understandably intense.

Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has come under intense pressure from politicians in Europe and the US to explain how political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, harvested data from about 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.