11.   Deadline pressures have forced Thompson to pick and choose how to allocate his remaining investigative resources.

12.   Even as global pressures drive Europe to a tighter single market and a new single currency, similar pressures are forcing a consolidation of the weapons and aviation industries.

13.   Finally that pressure forces valves open and the blood rushes down into the ventricles.

14.   Financial pressures forced him to sell his property on Windom Street.

15.   Friedman predicted that free-market pressure would force the worst schools to close and mediocre ones to shape up.

16.   He believes that demographic pressures will force cutbacks.

17.   However, he hopes worldwide pressure would force the Chinese to agree to vigilant testing.

18.   I asked if he thought unfair financial pressure forced others to commit to the pros before they were emotionally and physically prepared.

19.   However, public pressure forced them during the final days to drop their opposition to legislation that set minimum maternity stays and mental health benefits.

20.   In another case, international pressure is forcing the United States to back away from its policy of imposing sanctions on nations it considers renegades.