• Analysts said the ruling Awami League was under pressure as failure to secure funding for the bridge would cost the party votes at elections, likely to be held in late 2013.

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  • Big rewards for success are just as important as consequences for failure, and both increase pressure.

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  • It is here that the next big Indian earthquake is most likely to happen, although the entire subcontinent is riddled with faults on the verge of failure, having been under pressure for so long.

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  • First, our approach to this has been to galvanize and mobilize the international community to make it clear that Iranian behavior is the issue, to pressure and sanction Iran for its failure to live up to its international obligations, and to ratchet up that pressure and increase the sanctions on Iran to the point where we hope Iran will change its behavior.

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  • The failure caused the cabin to lose pressure instantly and the oxygen masks to deploy.

    ECONOMIST: Aircraft fatigue

  • The aircraft's computer system did send about four minutes of automated messages indicating a loss of cabin pressure and an electrical failure, officials have said.

    CNN: Brazilian air force says debris was not from Air France crash

  • Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.

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  • If there was a failure in the air supply system then the pressure would decrease more slowly but still eventually match the outside air pressure.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Dangers of aircraft decompression

  • Furthermore, the Butler inquiry's assertion that spymasters had not been under political pressure is somewhat undermined by its failure to question Alastair Campbell, Mr Blair's former chief spin-doctor.

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  • And although the money spent on abstinence will probably be wasted, it is only one-fifteenth of the total and if its failure is manifest, then there will be pressure for change.

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  • The victory was the perfect result for All Blacks coach Graham Henry, who was under enormous pressure following his side's failure at the World Cup last year while his job again looked precarious after the defeat to Australia at the end of July.

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  • It's no wonder that we tend to put too much pressure on ourselves and set ourselves up for failure.

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  • The government will be under considerable pressure to ensure that such a drastic power failure is not repeated, the BBC's Gary Duffy reports from Sao Paulo.

    BBC: Storm blamed for Brazil power cut

  • The rapid decline in U.S. emissions has taken some pressure off the White House after the 2010 failure of a cap-and-trade bill meant to put a price on carbon emissions.

    WSJ: Rise in U.S. Gas Production Fuels Unexpected Plunge in Emissions

  • Magilton's position has come under growing pressure from fans unhappy at the club's failure to mount a sustained promotion challenge.

    BBC: Ipswich owner backs boss Magilton

  • Maybe it's an act of desperation, but they have concluded that instant feedback is one way to cope with the pressure for shorter product cycles and with the high failure rate of new products.

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  • If the regulating valves fail or if the cabin structure is breached (by a failure of a door or window for example) then the pressure in the cabin would suddenly drop to match the outside air pressure.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Dangers of aircraft decompression

  • Pressure groups have expressed disappointment over the G8's failure to honour those previous commitments.

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  • Most of the technical issues covered in the report, such as the failure of a crucial cement seal and the misinterpretation of a key pressure test, have been raised by other investigations.

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  • The doubts swirling over the economic recovery have also put additional pressure on crude oil prices, as evidenced by the recent failure to overcome chart and trend line resistance last week.

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  • Failure, on the other hand, and the EUR will come under considerable downward pressure, making it almost unavoidable for Cyprus to leave the Eurozone.

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  • Conventional wisdom says that he was acting under pressure from conservatives in his Justice and Development party, who are disgruntled by his failure to deliver on other issues.

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  • But he said the lingering effects of superstorm Sandy and the administration's failure to broker a deal with the teachers' union on an evaluation plan have exerted significant pressure on the city's finances.

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  • Eritrea's frustrated not only with Ethiopia's failure to accept the decision, but also with the international community's apparent inaction and lack of pressure on Ethiopia to abide by the decision.

    NPR: Tensions on the Rise in Horn of Africa

  • Noor has a shunt in her brain to relieve pressure from fluid buildup, and she often experiences urinary tract infections that could possibly lead to renal failure.

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  • Since Rice's approach to reaching just such an accord has been to apply unrelenting pressure on Israel, it is fairly clear that she will blame Israel for the conference's preordained failure and cause a further deterioration in US-Israeli relations.

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