Sentences with phrase «pushed by the pressure»

But the accountability button was pushed by pressure group, Occupy Ghana and Citizen Ghana Movement who took the matter to court demanding that the Transport Ministry be forced to make full disclosure of its contract with the company.

Conventional wisdom says fluids injected underground should spread at a rate of several inches or less each year, and go only as far as they are pushed by the pressure inside the well.

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The wage demand, pushed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during intensive talks in Washington last week on modernizing the North American Free Tree Agreement, are aimed at preserving U.S. and Canadian auto production and putting upward pressure on Mexico's low auto wages.

Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

Some investors might react by moving capital from the U.S. to safe, stable Canada, putting some downward pressure on Canadian bond yields and pushing up the loonie, said Burleton.

Philip J. Purcell, Mr. Mack's predecessor as chief executive, stepped down under pressure in 2005, when he angered the firm's old guard by pushing retail while restraining traders from taking on too much risk.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

Pressure on Disney's cable - TV profit engine, led by sports network ESPN, has pushed the company to revise down income expectations through the next fiscal year.

Because the equities market has been pushed up by this additional flow of funds, any sign that investor sentiment is shifting will lead to a pullback in margin debt, and this leads to selling pressure in the equities market.

The fall in prices appears to reflect the easing of a number of the supply concerns and speculative pressures that had pushed prices to levels that were generally perceived as above those dictated by long - run fundamentals.

A person drifting aimlessly, pushed this way and that by the stronger pressure or the more attractive lure, can in no surer way find direction and stability than by seeking to know and do the will of God.

A life controlled by outward pressures, pushed about by fads and crazes, compliantly conforming with popular attitudes and fashions, is obviously not independent.

As a result of price pressures caused by imported catfish, the Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) is pushing for legislation that requires country - of - origin labeling on restaurant menus.

Arsenal play with fire by passing the ball around too much especially in our third, it invites the opposition to push up and put pressure, something which Arsenal are known to fold against, especially playing players out of position like Monreal.

The Arsenal played well we had over 70 % position of the ball with something like 27 attacks were 8 were on target burnly had a game plan and that game plan was about hurting our players ankles and they got away scot free with it yet xaka gets red?????? Yes they were diddling about when that happened but compare it to the challenge on ozil and he was on goal yes koscienly came back from an offside position but the high boot on the head was dangerous I thought Arsenal played well and controlled the game well even when we were put under pressure in our own half when you look at the penalty awarded to them you will see a dive as coquelin barely touched him how many time did they push kosscielny of the ball???? hope he is ok as he was looking like he had a thigh problem I like the back four of todays as Gabriel did ok specially when we went down to ten men >> > I salute our Arsenal for wining the game on the 97 minit with only 10 men on the field What an iced cold penalty scored by Alexis

Both the peristaltic action of the tongue and the pressure differential created by tongue movements quickly push / pull the milk to its ultimate destination.

She showed him how to put pressure on my back by pushing with his hands and also words of encouragement to say, such as visualizing my cervix opening up like a flower.

There was no pressure to push or go by anyone's plans other than my body's natural process.

While most postpartum hemorrhoids are caused by pressure and pushing, several risk factors are associated with a higher risk of postpartum hemorrhoids.

This happens when the baby turns around with its head facing downwards in position for birtht The baby's head is at the mouth of the uterus and it is ready to move through the birth canal in the process of laboro Therefore when you are 38 weeks pregnant and lower back pain is experienced, you know you have to be prepared for labor and childbirtht When the baby is in position for birth and the abdominal lowering happens, it exerts a lot of pressure on the ligaments that are holding the uterus in positiono As the uterus prepares to push the baby out, the back pain and contractions become more intenses These contractions are very different from Braxton Hicks contractions which can be eased by adjusting your positiono Labor contractions increase and decrease rhythmically and are the strongest just before birtht

Instead, due to high blood pressure, I was sent to triage on a Wednesday afternoon at 37 weeks, spent a night being monitored, then had a balloon put inside my cervix for 12 hours to «ripen» it, then received pitocin (and an epidural, because by that point I was too frightened of what getting my water broken would feel like), threw up numerous times, developed a fever, was informed that I might or might not be getting a C - section, eventually pushed for 45 minutes and then had my son, on a Friday night.

After several adjustments by Dr. Denisa, I felt the baby move down more and felt intense pressure and the sensation of pushing around noon.

In an emotional essay published by the Fed is Best Foundation, a parent - led nonprofit founded to push back against the social pressure to exclusively breastfeed, Johnson writes that despite multiple consultations with lactation experts and nurses, no one caught on to the fact that her son was hungry, and that she wasn't producing enough breastmilk.

Pressure - fitted, temporary railings — those that expand lengthwise to fit snugly into either side of the wall — can be pushed down by a baby trying to climb or pulling herself up to stand.

When this happens, you will feel a rush of warm liquid, which is the amniotic fluid being pushed out by the pressure of your baby.

To do this massage it is okay to massage in the normal manner, but it seems to be more effective to apply pressure with your palm by pushing inward on the milk duct blockage, then, while pushing into your breast with your palm, roll your hand down (keep the pressure on your palm and push down with your fingers in a wave motion so that at the end your entire hand is applying pressure) onto your breast so that the pressure is pushing the plugged duct towards your nipple.

Patients» groups have warned the major reforms of the NHS now being pushed through, combined with the # 20 billion efficiency savings drive sought by 2015, are putting intense pressure on the health service.

He has responded to the growing pressure by apologising for breaking the party's pledge not to raise tuition fees under any circumstances — prompting a mixture of mockery and admiration online — and using the Brighton conference to push for fairer taxes in negotiations with the Conservatives.

What I mean by this is that even if a given leader decides to respond to domestic and international pressure to reform by repressing the opposition, they may not be able to successfully pursue this course of action if the opposition is strong and united, key international partners are pushing for change, and the country is effectively bankrupt and can not afford to pay the security forces.

The IDC has been pushing for votes on key liberal measures in the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans, amid pressure from left - leaning groups to rejoin the Democratic mainline conference in the chamber.

Negotiations between elites, surrender by the military or national and international pressure have not yet pushed the regime to yield power and seem unlikely to do so in the future.

«So many things need to get done, and we don't seem to be getting a hearing on our issues, so now is the time to push back,» said AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes, who added that he's been pressured by his affiliates to do something about the dysfunctional Senate for well over a year.

They also allegedly used influence to try to generate commissions for Adam Skelos by helping AbTech with steps that included pressuring Nassau County to approve a $ 12 million contract and pushing for state approval of fracking.

For the last four years, the Council was led by Melissa Mark - Viverito, who used the position to push reforms to the criminal justice system and pressure the mayor to back the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex.

The battle comes after the Cuomo administration has been pressured to help counties more on costs mandated by Albany, an area where the governor's office insists it's already done the hard work, taking on the costs for the growth in the program while also pushing through a new, less generous pension tier five years ago.

The group formed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the aftermath of the presidential election is joining the pressure campaign aimed at pushing the Independent Democratic Conference back into the mainline Democratic fold in the state Senate.

Both he and Peralta urged Gov. Cuomo to step up the pressure to secure the necessary votes in the Senate by pushing to include the DREAM Act in the final state budget due by the end of the month.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The organization that produces New York City's annual pride parade, rally, and related events is under pressure to put groups that are taking a lead in pushing back against Republican Party control of the White House and Congress at the front of this year's march.

«Governor Cuomo's rejection of the Constitution Pipeline represents a turning of the tide, where states across the nation that have been pressured into accepting harmful gas infrastructure projects by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may now feel emboldened to push back,» said Roger Downs, conservation director of the Sierra Club's Atlantic Chapter.

The 2011 referendum proposing to replace the first - past - the - post (FPTP) voting system with the alternative vote (AV) was the culmination of a long process led by political parties and organised pressure groups pushing for change.

SQZ was solving the problem by using its chip - based, gas - pressure system to push in the nanotubes.

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In 2013, Corrado Cimarelli, a volcanologist at the LMU University of Munich, re-created volcanic lightning in his lab by pushing dust into a small glass tube at extremely high pressure.

Geoscientists have known for decades that the injection of fluid can increase pressures within the pores of deep rock formations, pushing faults that are already critically stressed by forces in Earth's crust past the snapping point.

It is mainly driven by the wind — which pushes water landward — and the low pressure of the storm that causes the water to arch like a convex lens.

The push is accomplished by two actions, namely capillary action (the tendency of water to rise in a thin tube because it usually flows along the walls of the tube) and root pressure.

This is the excess pressure created by the volcano's magma pushing outward, relative to the inward pressure created by the overlying rock.

A group of Japanese researchers led by Osaka University has proposed that substances heated with high - power lasers produce an ultrahigh pressure plasma state, comparable with those found at the centers of stars, and that the surface tension of the plasma can push back light.

They spread out so much that they generate pressure by pushing on each other and everything else they come into contact with.