Sentences with phrase «pressures brought upon»

Spielberg rushed this film, about the pressures brought upon by the Nixon administration on newspapers seeking to publish the Pentagon papers, owing to the man who occupies the White House now.

The script does a fine job balancing the more conventional horror elements with the increasing pressure they bring upon the family.

Not exact matches

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Critics bring pressure upon that administration to change that policy; that is considered legitimate political dialogue.

It represents the inevitable confusion of middle - class intellectualism which imagines that political changes are achieved by the united efforts of good people who bring pressure to bear upon traditional political parties.

Third, globalization increases the pressures which the impact of this broadening of choice brings upon the institutions of any given economic, social or political order.

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).

So, I genuinely think underneath his professional mask he is having a bit of a mental meltdown brought upon by the pressure.

I think this is posturing right now due to pressures being brought upon them [the IDC] by national politics.

Benjamin's victory has brought renewed pressure upon Felder and the IDC to return to the Democratic fold, although not so far from Cuomo, the titular head of the state party — though he indicated at an unrelated event on Staten Island yesterday that he would prefer such an arrangement.

«We support these efforts and pledge our support to work with you to bring pressure upon General Electric to achieve this important goal,» the Senators wrote.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

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.

So if you find yourself in a blizzard, hungry and thirsty, wearing open toed shoes and T - shirt, running out of gas, with no washer fluid, a dead cell phone and a tire pressure warning on your dash, you brought it upon yourself.

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.

a blue muscle poised under skin, a skin raised up to the surface of the body, organ of the surface, itself without speech but with terrible longing the seam between inside and outside by which pressure is brought to bear upon the organism - Erin Mouré, «Visible Spectrum»

The increasing proliferation of these tools has the potential to raise awareness among environmentally - minded people and perhaps bring pressure to bear upon utilities to use more renewable energy sources (or at least less coal mined from the tops of mountains!)

Second, Parliament considered it important to take responsibility for enforcement of a non-molestation order away from the victim of domestic violence, thereby removing the pressure that often can be brought to bear upon a domestic violence victim by a perpetrator to persuade her not to take enforcement proceedings.

You should look at the online shopping method as a way to avoid high pressure sales, not bring them upon yourself.

I think Canadian Realtors have had about enough and I expect the pressure will be put to our industry leaders to seek vindication for the damages she continues to bring upon our industry and its members.