The aim was to relieve pressure on hard-pressed GPs and casualty departments by providing members of the public with information.
The mobile computing revolution and the move to the cloud, along with declining PC sales, are set to put increased pressure on hard drive makers going forward.
Bank shares in Japan are particularly tightly held, making it hard for outsiders to apply pressure.
It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets.
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Given all of that it will be very hard for her to resist the pressure to lower standards.
Dr Brian Keighley, the chairman of the British Medical Association Scotland, said the high standard of performance was testimony to the NHS's hard-working staff, under pressure to achieve targets as staffing numbers and budgets fall.
But if he doesn't produce results, he could come under pressure to follow the more hard-line tactics of his defeated rival, Otto Perez Molina.
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The Tigers pack is mobile, led by Mitchell Sargent, and they move around the park at speed and work really hard from marker to put teams under pressure.
They said they expected the United States to keep a low profile and to be aware of the pressure on the government from hard-line Muslims who support the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
As a consequence of this pressure, I took losses extremely hard.
The European Parliament is under pressure from green activists who want hard biomass targets, which measure the largest maximum sustainable yield (MSY) - or largest catch - by weight.
Worse, now that their bad technique still produced good shots, poor players had less incentive to put in the hard work needed to groove mechanically sound, pressure-proof and ultimately satisfying swings.
Supposedly half of all English marriages succeed, and the pressure of living a fairytale would be hard for anyone to imagine.
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As we've seen, it's hard enough to perform at your best under the pressure we've been under without having an injury to compromise that.
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.
Ms Harman used her traditional end-of-conference address to rally Labour members, urging them to keep the pressure up on the coalition and fight hard for every vote in a series of Parliamentary by-elections next month.
He was trying hard to conform, he was under a lot of pressure.
Well that high-pressure, high-security experience may be hard to come by sans an electoral college vote but a presidential-style vacation is not.
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It's hard for anyone to play when you're under pressure.
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Ronald MacLean, of campaign group Pylon Pressure, said opponents had fought long and hard for a public inquiry on the line, which would cross the national park and pass within sight of the Wallace Monument in Stirling.
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An EU embargo of Iranian crude would halt around 600, 000 barrels a day of imports, hitting Europe's refiners hard and further tightening markets and inventories, putting upward pressure on oil-futures prices, the International Energy Agency has said.
That's not conclusive proof, but it does look like the boost has a lot to do with the pressure to find something to do when jobs are hard to find.
Developing a plan to deal with pressure and keep confidence high, while consistently working hard will go a long way at putting you on the leader board in golf, business and life.
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That allows a certain amount of hedging of bets because sometimes the weather is very easy to forecast - in a spell of high pressure for instance - and sometimes it is very hard.
It's hard to disentangle the initial shock of price liberalisation from ongoing inflationary pressure.
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Higher oil prices and inflationary fears hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, and even the big oil companies were under pressure.
The move should not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it should also put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
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The Liberal Democrats are there to really support and be on the side of millions and millions of people who play by the rules, work hard, pay their taxes and are feeling under an enormous amount of pressure right now.
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