21.   Political pressure to introduce deeper cuts in military programmes intensified in a number of NATO countries.

22.   Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices.

23.   Pavlov, however, applied political pressure on President Gorbachev to support his strategy of a gradual, self-sufficient transition to a market economy.

24.   Political pressure on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa increased in February, with fresh allegations that senior government figures had been involved in several cases of corruption.

25.   Equally it is inadequate to say the promise was given solely as a response to the political pressure of wartime radicalism.

26.   Organized interests not surprisingly have increasingly turned away from legislatures and have concentrated their political pressures on the bureaucracy and the executive.

27.   Political pressures from different parts of the country were articulated on a geographical basis and directed towards bureaucrats originating from the part of the country concerned.

28.   Objectives and decisions were internally generated rather than responding to external political pressures.

29.   There had been certain problems with the agency concerned due to political pressure.

30.   Locally elected authorities subject to local political pressure were thus by-passed, limiting localized agitation by the National Unemployed Workers Movement.