Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.

BBC: Opec agrees output boost

But if prices continue to rise the government may come under pressure to do more, such as to reduce the subsidy for renewable energy schemes that are being paid for by higher electricity bills.

BBC: A promise fulfilled on energy prices?

Although Norinchukin is not legally obliged to rescue them, it will come under political pressure to do so, weakening its deteriorating credit rating and so its ability to borrow internationally at what are by Japanese standards cheap rates in the markets.

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Walsh is one of the first top European executives to voluntarily give up his bonus, though others have come under heavy pressure to do so.

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But it will come under growing pressure to do so as it advances via the ballot box into the Palestinian mainstream.

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Casting doubt over whether the European Parliament would actually approve a trimmed budget once the national leaders signed off on it, the president implied that its members might come under such pressure to do so that they should be allowed to vote in secret.

BBC: Cameron touches raw nerve

And third, too few other international players step up to try to prevent atrocities, and come under little domestic pressure to do so.

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We think that the normal pattern when bad news takes place is the most likely one to be repeated: relatively liquid assets, assets which tend to do well when global equities come under pressure, and assets where speculators had previously built up sizable short positions are all likely to outperform as investors flock to safe havens and square their positions.

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