Sentences with phrase «pressure acting upon them»

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These recommendations were acted upon with varying degrees of seriousness by the SCODS committee; but the primary pressure that triggered reorganization of the convention was the ferment of the 960s.

Much pressure is put upon this by what the document calls the «problematic features» that «The Act unfortunately retains a feature of recent English Law... acceptance of certain decisions to bring about death», namely intentional killing by «omission», even and especially «of food and water» (p. 19).

It is true that certain militias enjoy intense localized support and that they have successfully pressured the NTC to act upon popular grievances.

They also considered implications of the technology, including pressures on women to undergo the test and act upon the results, and the loss of ultrasound data that would indicate fetal problems if that step is removed from the screening process.

His actions in this area brings to mind the political genius of Lyndon Baines Johnson in pushing through Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and, much more recently the pressure put upon Congress by President Barack Obama to get a comprehensive health bill through a Congress as sharply divided as the body confronted by Lincoln.

Competition between American workers and Chinese immigrants plus a growing nativism brought pressure upon Congress to take some kind of restrictive action, which began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882.

That is to say, he was acting as if time and weight exerted no pressure upon the painting itself.

Prof Severinghaus, it would be valuable to many of us if you would expand upon your thoughts and reactions at the time of 2004 - 5, not through any pressure from here, but as a voluntary act of your choice.