The Kremlin has used its control of oil and gas to assert pressure on former satellites like Georgia and Ukraine.
Some believed that Mr Pitt had indeed offered Mr Biggs the job, but had buckled under pressure from his former clients in the accounting industry, who were worried about Mr Biggs's reforming zeal.
Two investigations came to differing conclusions about her actions: One found she violated state ethics law by using state employees to put pressure on her former in-law, another found she had stayed within the law and little evidence she knew of the actions of her subordinates.
After Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition came to power in 1996, the new Israeli prime minister bowed to pressure to include the former army general in his cabinet.
His succession to chairman takes the pressure off Rubin, the former U.S. Treasury secretary, who had been acting as chairman while the board searched for permanent leadership.
Gayle and Sarwan added 42 for the second wicket, but when the former departed, the pressure was on Brian Lara to try and produce something special for his side.
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Some of the pessimism is based on worries about pressure on the stock as its former parent company, Altria Group, continues to unload its remaining 87.6% interest in Kraft.
The Dons were appealing for a penalty when Fallon fell under pressure from Gary Harkins but the former Plymouth striker was shown a yellow card for simulation, much to the disgust of the home support.
Tsonga, who is working with Roger Rasheed, Monfils's former coach, said the additional pressure of being French at the French Open motivated him.
But George Entwistle told the Commons culture committee he did not believe management pressure had led to a report on the former presenter being shelved.
It was, after all, the same judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, who put the kibosh on DOJ pressure tactics used in an earlier case against former partners of the KPMG accounting firm.
Then even that story came under pressure when Kirk Fordham, Foley's former chief of staff, told the Associated Press that he had personally expressed concern to Hastert's staff more than three years ago.
Yet, try as he may, Mr Mugabe cannot dismiss the new pressure on him merely as the vengeful work of former colonial powers or the machinations of western capitalists.
Cameron, who has been under pressure because of his ties to Murdoch and his former newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks, is scheduled to testify all day Thursday at the Leveson Inquiry.
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Despite the home side applying most of the early pressure it was Bristol who took the lead when former Ebbw Vale and Newport fly-half Jason Strange stroked over a penalty against his countrymen.
Catherine Deveney, the journalist who first broke the story in last week's Observer, told BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics programme the former priest had been under "intense pressure" from the media and others who wanted to "out" him.
Tajiks, however, retained their influence, keeping the ministries of defence and foreign affairs, while the former king, a Pushtun, came under pressure to withdraw from the presidential race.
But Mr Field, a former welfare minister, said he had resisted pressure from Labour's whips and would be keen to have one of the referendums in his Birkenhead constituency.
The former prime minister says the Catherine has handled the pressure of her high profile brilliantly.
His relationship with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin led Russia to pressure Yugoslavia to agree to a diplomatic end to NATO's air assault over Kosovo earlier this year.
Britain's call to suspend sanctions against Myanmar, which was quickly backed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, will likely put more pressure on the EU to review restrictions on trade with the former military state.
"For him to say in a 48-hour period they killed the top two dogs in the Sahara, it takes the pressure off of him, " said Rudolph Atallah, the former head of counterterrorism for Africa at the Pentagon.
First, he ignored pressure to include in his shadow cabinet Peter Garrett, a popular former rock singer with a knack for talking clearly about global warming.
Friday's attack on the IOM compound "is another tool for the Taliban to put pressure on the international community, " said Daud Sultanzoy, a former member of the Afghan parliament and the host of a political TV show.
In his report, following a year-long review, Sir George, a former chief executive of IT company Unisys, said the pressure to deliver quick results to the potential detriment of the longer-term development of a company had "become an entrenched feature of the UK business environment".
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Mueller did not confirm he had threatened to resign, but he twice said he supported the testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who testified that Gonzales and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card tried to pressure Ashcroft to reauthorize the surveillance program against terror suspects.
David Levy, a former Cintas salesman in San Diego, said similar high-pressure tactics are not uncommon.
During former Gov. Mark Sanford's term, the fiscal pressure was inescapable.
It was left to player of the match Shaw (17 not out) and Holly Colvin to steer the team over the finishing line, with the former hitting two timely boundaries to ease the tension when the pressure had seemed to be getting to England.
Ultimately, Russia is using the customs union to increase economic and by extension, political influence over the two former Soviet countries, and it will not hesitate to exert pressure to get the two countries in line as it moves forward in its integration efforts.
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