1. Anti-land mine activists in other countries pointed to the American example and pressured their governments to follow suit. 2. Egypt has suffered a series of bloody attacks on visiting foreigners, and authorities have said the violence is meant to pressure the government by disrupting the tourism industry. 3. It is an extremely well-educated society and enough of a democracy that the restive public may yet manage to pressure the government into undertaking serious reform. 4. Labor and farming leaders vow to continue pressuring the government until the troops are called back to their barracks and the squatters leave the farms. 5. Newspapers reported today that the International Monetary Fund is also pressure the government to raise electricity prices. 6. Now, some farmer and Indian leaders have begun working together against the oil companies and pressuring the government for more services. 7. Similarly, commercial interests can often pressure governments to dilute the impact of proposed agreements, producing a fine-sounding document with virtually no meaningful results. 8. That attack was the bloodiest in a series of strikes aimed at tourists by militants apparently intent on pressuring the government by disrupting an industry central to the economy. 9. The Global Anti-Golf Movement is campaigning to pressure Asian governments for a moratorium on the construction of new golf courses. 10. Parties pressure government over alleged election fraud, |