Sentences with phrase «of applying pressure»

I believe in mass movements, as the only quasi-democratic means of applying pressure on sclerotic political élites, but it doesn't help to be naive about the rationality of crowds.

Amazon is squeezing the publishers even harder now and will probably figure out new ways of applying pressure.

Reflexology This type of treatment is said to be a system of applying pressure to the feet, hands, and thumbs.

After an hour of applying pressure and a somewhat panicky call to my Dad (who was an EMT when he was younger), the bleeding had mostly stopped and I was trying to figure out the best way to dress the wound.

The political elite in habit of applying pressure are pressure cookers and they see Baba as a meal and a mill.

By contrast, Baby Milk Action points to successes achieved by its strategy of applying pressure directly to Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, and Chief Executive, Paul Bulcke, by mobilising supporters of the Nestlé boycott.

(3) It pretends to go it alone, or does go it alone initially as a means of applying pressure for a «coalition» response to the alleged Iranian threat.

In a few hours unusually free of applied pressures, no one can even tell us to go buy something, because where I live all stores are closed on Sunday mornings.

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Some of those are stored as a backup, while the rest are sent to a diamond - growing lab in Amsterdam, which applies hundreds of thousands of pounds per square inch of pressure over time.

The use of dubious billion - dollar lawsuits to apply pressure on Alfa's partners — filed in remote regions of Russia by obscure private shareholders whose interests somehow overlapped perfectly with Alfa's — became a favorite calling card.

It's very important, though, to remain calm, and not apply any pressure, just offers of genuine help.

The Eagles come into the game with one of the best defenses in the league — one superior to New England's, that should be able to apply pressure on Brady.

The outside world needs to apply a different kind of pressure: a diplomatic and economic push for regime - led reforms, commercial investment, and reduced military spending.

While Georgia is doggedly seeking to spin out of Russia's orbit by seeking NATO membership, Russia is applying pressure by tightening military and economic ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two regions Georgia lost in 2008.

Workers at companies with higher levels of openness have higher rates of job satisfaction and are less likely to quit; more women also apply to such firms because they feel less pressure to negotiate.

After that, the White House plans to reassess those exemptions, applying pressure in hopes of a quick resolution of talks to update the 24 - year - old trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.

The involvement of other jurisdictions, he said, might, «see adequate pressure applied to these companies to inspire action on climate change.»

VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating algorithm in each car that takes in reams of data — about atmospheric pressure, how the car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.

Once Lee applies gentle pressure, the bump releases a stream of gunk that just keeps folding and coiling on top of itself.

«Both heads of state agreed to cooperate closely with each other and the United States and shared the understanding there must be the most powerful sanctions and pressure applied on North Korea,» presidential Blue House spokesman Park Su - hyun told a media briefing after the two leaders spoke by phone.

In private, people sitting across the table from Cohn have seen another side of him, that of a maestro in the art of applying strategic pressure.

Applying pressure on firms was an effective strategy, as the ones that do have policies adopted them sometime between the end of last year and spring 2015.

Statements within the guidelines about violence towards women, for example — such as «To snap a bitch's neck, make sure to apply all your pressure to the middle of her throat» — are considered okay because they are not specific threats.

Some of the newer guilds are trying to speak for contingent workers of all kinds, making it far more difficult to organize and apply pressure against any one company or sector.

Set deadlines that apply an appropriate amount of pressure, while still being achievable.

However, in measuring overall consumer perception, none of the 17 partner brands which broke ties with the NRA that YouGov BrandIndex tracked has moved in a statistically significant way, which may indicate American consumers applying equal positive and negative pressure, depending on their politics and position on gun control.

Unlike the HeadBlade, you have to be conscious of how much pressure you need to apply to get a smooth close shave but without pressing too hard and cutting the scalp.

He also pledged that Chinese authorities would continue to apply pressure to the trade of digital assets, which was significantly ratcheted up last year with bans on token offerings, colloquially known as ICOs, and on cryptocurrency exchanges, which had to either cease or dramatically reconfigure their operations, or move abroad.

Today's announcement should be credited to the tens of thousands of Americans who have relentlessly applied pressure to this administration to keep this critical issue alive.

Do not apply pressure; instead, let the weight of the razor do the work while shaving.

The shouts have even been taken to Tribune board chairman Bruce Karsh's L.A. home; David Freedlander describes the nuances of applying such pressure in his Daily Beast story.

This design is to apply more pressure to the edge of the blade compared to the usual straight bar design.

He said the risk applied equally to companies, especially those that have been in denial about climate change risk to their business, and investors, some of which had been pressuring companies to lift their game on carbon risk disclosure but still had a long way to go themselves.

It is important that you avoid applying excessive pressure that crushes the inner core of the shaving brush.

Please note that this amount includes the salaries of all the staff for the first 3 months of operation and it applies to a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services on a commercial level.

Ingraham apologized for her remarks on Thursday after Hogg had urged his followers on Twitter to apply pressure on sponsors of her program, «The Ingraham Angle.»

There is no doubt that the extra weight makes this razor glide effortlessly over the face, which reduces the amount of pressure you have to apply to get a close shave.

A senior government official says Japan has been one of the countries applying pressure on Canada to come to an agreement on an updated TPP.

The way that interest rates gradually turned upward over several years despite the relentless downward pressure applied by the central bank suggests that we are dealing with the end of a very long - term decline.

The FTSE 100 declined on Wednesday as miners finally succumbed to the pressures being applied to their industry by the seemingly endless stream of negative data reports coming out of China.

Regardless of how you choose to use your shaving brush, it is important that you avoid applying excessive pressure that crushes the inner core of the shaving brush into your soap or on your face.

Next we need to take that exact mixture, and apply an exact set of outside influences like heat, pressure, and time.

Seems some big one's mind the joining of «Turkey» and that is why all this pressure applied to make Muslims life more difficult in Europe with so many regulations... Some are taking into consideration the balance of powers and religions... Why can't Europe say no to America if do not want the joining of «Turkey» to League... why buy time prolonging with excuses and conditions while from inside they fight any thing called Islamic from appearance to rituals...?!

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

One suspects that this is largely because they recognise, on some level, that the sexual anthropology of our culture collapses into incoherence as soon as a little analytical pressure is applied, and so they resist genuine intellectual engagement,short - circuiting the debate by retreating into insults, relativism and disingenuous blather about Catholics wanting a theocracy.

Now I would emphasize that in these conditions, which apply to quite a number of the Christians whom I know, there have been no outward pressure and no indoctrination.

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Do the same to the other half and then hold the two slightly melted edges of the eggs together, applying a very light pressure until the chocolate sets and the eggs hold together.

I like to get a good hold on the end of the stem with my right hand, and with my left hand, apply pressure on the stem, and quickly strip the leaves off.

To determine if a pear is ripe, simply apply gentle pressure at the narrow «neck» of the pear with your thumb.