Sentences with phrase «intense public pressure»

Why would the attorney general make such a monumental decision without intense public pressure?

Under intense public pressure, the Presidency, ordered the company to cough up the excess funds it unjustly took from the state.

Then there is the issue with the USNS Comfort, a military medical ship that the president sent to the island after intense public pressure.

Moreover, there was intense public pressure on DVLA to issue drivers» licences.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

Despite intense public pressure to toughen policies regarding teachers who have been charged with molesting children, Washington State education officials have reached an impasse in the development of an unusually explicit «code of professional conduct.»

The lease sales come after Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke removed 17,000 acres of public lands near Yellowstone National Park from the auction block from the March sale in response to intense public pressure from conservation groups and in order to address environmental concerns.

Under intense public pressure to stop a perceived crime wave, Troy police called a press conference this morning to announce three arrests in two homicides.

Under intense public pressure, legislators offered a short - term reprieve last year and talked of creating a separate funding allocation for specialty subjects.

March 20 Updated It appears that intense public pressure and adverse publicity have prompted the owners of the Hump Restaurant, caught serving whale sushi, to shut it down.