While the Maintenance of Parents Act, and the general social pressure to take care of the elderly within the family, has so far ensured most Singaporean senior citizens, there are signs of change in the social fabric.
At home in Pakistan, General Musharraf is under pressure both from the increasingly popular Islamic parties and from his own army.
This adds to the pressure on General Musharraf, criticised at home for winning no important concessions from India, to take a hard line.
Timeshares in general has been under pressure in recent years due to defaults and diminished availability of receivables financing, but that has been improving recently.
In other cases, a general manager feeling the pressure to win immediately caves to an agent and offers a long-term deal to an older player whose productive days are likely to end before the contract does.
But there were also blue-uniformed factory workers, given a day off to attend the protest by their boss, perhaps as a favour for a political chum who wants to keep up the pressure on General Chavalit.
The notion is that by doing so, Obama could convince the Palestinians to water down the even more radically anti-Israel positions they are advancing today at the UN General Assembly that Congressional pressure prevents him from supporting.
General Motors, under pressure to create a midprice blockbuster sport utility with the look of a macho Hummer, relied on input from 481 people summoned to a building on an empty fairground in southern California in June 2001.
In general, insurers are under pressure from their investors and they are trying to find ways to conduct their businesses more efficiently.
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But it was unclear whether enough countries, in Africa or elsewhere, would keep up the pressure to persuade General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz to step down.
However, General Musharraf is also under pressure from America and other world powers to end Pakistan's refuge for various groups of Islamist fighters, from al-Qaeda operatives to the Kashmiri insurgents.
Seven years into a vicious, expensive, politically unpopular and largely ignored war being fought thousands of miles from Paris, the French expeditionary force under General Henri Navarre was under pressure from its political masters at home to grasp the military initiative from the Chinese-backed forces of the Viet Minh.
"It seems to be an Irish solution to a British problem - politically they don't want turbines on the British countryside, they are under a lot of pressure from the general public over there and it seems they want to impose these wind farms on the Irish general public instead, " he said.
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At a congressional hearing in 2007, Koop spoke about political pressure on the surgeon general post.
The outsized contract has been a problem for general managers who, under intense pressure to win, have a habit of doling out the extra dollar or extra year to veterans whose help to the team comes with diminishing returns relative to pay.
Precious metals traders are presently wondering whether gold and silver will benefit further from an escalation of protesting in Greece, due to safe-haven buying, or whether the metals will by clumped by traders into the general commodity sector and face selling pressure due to risk aversion.
Many accuse the general of merely caving in to American pressure.
The media are partly responsible for the pressure, but they reflect the general attitudes of the population.
Mr Zakhilwal had been under pressure to name them after making general accusations earlier this year about corruption in parliament.
One important cause of the recent quiescence of wage pressure may be that prices in general are being held down for other reasons.
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.
Equally impressive was the refusal of Frances Kelsey, who was responsible for vetting thalidomide at America's Food and Drug Administration, to bend to corporate pressure and approve the drug for general use.
Their policy began under American pressure soon after Hamas won a Palestinian general election in 2006.
The sessions can be delivered in general practice without referral to a specialist, taking pressure off waiting lists.
Having come to power through a party convention rather than a popular vote, he is under pressure to confirm his mandate in a general election.
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Does the White House believe that this debate will be solved through internal negotiations between the parties or through outside pressure being brought to bear from the general public?
When asked at a news conference last week about Allen's status, Panetta told reporters that the general had been "under a tremendous amount of pressure, " including difficult recommendations on the future course of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.
When Dollar General held its ground it was a sign the selling pressure was drying up.
That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.
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