1.   Analysts say that pressured the bank into action.

2.   Led by its chief economic adviser, Lawrence B. Lindsey, it did not want to pressure international banks in the United States and elsewhere to open their books.

3.   Professor Charles P. Kindleberger, a retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and expert on financial panics, said the popular mood would not unduly pressure banks.

4.   Spokesman Jeep Bryant denied the bank was pressured into making the loans.

5.   The new order gives federal banking regulators tools to freeze terrorist assets, disrupt international fund transfers and pressure foreign banks and foreign governments to cooperate.

6.   A potential hitch looms in France, where unions representing bank workers have threatened to strike Wednesday to pressure banks into talks on salaries, hiring and security.

7.   But Bach believes Jewish survivors and heirs also failed to do enough to pressure Swiss banks through diplomatic channels.

8.   Critics across the political spectrum have pressured the bank to reform.

9.   Kang was also accused of pressuring banks to provide preferential loans to two financially shaky companies run by a relative and a friend, the prosecutor said.

10.   Many analysts say Lafontaine has hurt his cause by appearing to pressure the bank, which is fiercely independent.