The case has put pressure on relations between London and Moscow, and the recent developments have threatened to aggravate the situation further.
With the economy still going like a train, even the most fervent believer in the new economy would be hard pressed to mount a strong case against gentle pressure on the brakes.
The Web companies also face a civil lawsuit filed by a citizen, with almost identical accusations to the criminal case, and pressure from the telecommunications ministry to monitor their sites proactively, with an eye toward removing offensive content.
The case in favour of pressure groups begins with some of the flaws of representative democracy.
The astronauts wore them uninflated, and they were just a backup in case the capsule lost pressure.
In this case, with only pressure-sensitive input and a single button, the Mighty can accomplish some very sophisticated tasks.
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In the case of males it may be to repress social-emotional reciprocity and in the case of females the pressure may be the opposite to increase social-emotional reciprocity, because of social-cultural expectations.
In this case, the selling pressure could be coming from investors wanting to realize long-term gains at the known tax rate of 15%, rather than risk a potentially higher tax rate in 2013.
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Both sides favour the idea of a dignified reburial - though some relatives of the other eight activists reportedly believe that leaving the bodies where they are will help to keep attention on the case, and put pressure on the Nigerian Government for compensation.
If the government has a strong case, it typically puts pressure on the company to dump senior figures.
But the Saudi Interior Minister, Prince Nayef, said Saudi Arabia would not bow to outside pressure in the case.
Mr Singh's death has come as a huge embarrassment for the authorities who are already under enormous pressure over the case.
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Now the Defendants will be under an immense amount of pressure to settle this case outside of the courtroom.
The court has been under pressure to close the case rapidly, the BBC's David Willey reports from Vatican City.
The circumstances of this case are historic, and the pressure upon the government to navigate this financial crisis is unfathomable.
One of the first to tell it was Tracy Martin, who initially addressed reporters last March 8, trying to raise the case's profile and hike pressure on authorities.
In those outtakes Donziger downplayed the lack of evidence of groundwater pollution by saying the plaintiffs could win the case anyway, perhaps through popular pressure on the judge.
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"I think it was a case of a referee crumbling under the pressure at Old Trafford really, " said Jenas.
Ministers planned to publish the bill last year, but when an environmental pressure group won a court case arguing that the government's consultation on nuclear power had been misleading, the bill was shelved and the consultation re-run.
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In its ruling Wednesday, the Hague Civil Court rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers and environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth against Shell, saying the leaking pipelines were was caused by saboteurs, not Shell negligence.
We are a long way from that happening, but given the international spotlight now focused on South Africa's police and judicial system, there will be pressure to ensure that this case does not drag on, or do anything to discredit this country.
And the fact is the institution called the Iraqi military and the associated security forces with some exceptions have stayed loyal to the government, and that certainly is the case now and it has been the case through '06 with all the pressure on it.
Liquid-fuelled rocket engines work by mixing the fuel (in this case kerosene) with liquid oxygen at high pressure.
US-born fund manager Bill Browder, who runs Hermitage Capital, spearheaded efforts in the US to put pressure on Russia over the Magnitsky case.
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.
That is a very different situation than at Fukushima Daiichi, where the fuel in three reactors is thought to have burned holes in their immediately surrounding pressure vessels, and in one case to have fallen all the way through to the bottom of the outer containment vessel.
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Class-action certification also would significantly increase the potential damages and put additional pressure on the NCAA to settle the case.
Doing so would at least raise the possibility that it were doing so because of pressure and not the merits of the case.
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If you have been recruited to create something intended to develop the business, as in this case, it's easy to feel under pressure.
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