Difficult economic times mean that Tunisia's Islamist-led government face popular pressure to recover the remaining money.
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Setting up a Scottish parliament is squarely in this tradition of judicious adjustment to popular pressure.
Abroad, investors saw yet another Ecuadorean politician bowing to popular pressure instead of backing necessary economic reform.
But it would be disastrous for society if popular pressure alone could induce prosecutors to charge people with crimes.
It is popular pressure, too, that has pushed governments to take in more refugees, though temporary homes still need to be found for many more.
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But if the military tide were to turn against the SPLA-N there would be fierce popular pressure on the southern government to help it wholeheartedly.
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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Fact is, Republican leaders become less significant with every passing year because they have no way of reversing the intellectual trends from above or the popular pressure from below.
This is the first time that Jordan has come under so much popular pressure because of its ties with Israel since the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1994.
Professor al-Hamid believes that petitions are not enough, and that without popular pressure, from academics, from the religious scholars, and from businessmen, the government is unlikely to embark on serious reform.
The caution of Egypt's president is legendary, and in the eyes of many, his latest move comes less in response to popular pressure than as an attempt to pre-empt mounting criticism from Washington.
This adds to popular pressure for change.
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New Hampshire's tax phobia even influenced Taxachusetts to the south, where popular pressure has made the Bay State much more reasonable (compared with the rest of the Northeast) in its income tax--which is flat--as well as its property taxes.
Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Hyey Long.
But in stock markets and (especially) the market for government debt, investors seem to be counting on the European Central Bank to make everything come good in the end, whatever happens to the domestic economy in the meantime, and whatever the popular pressure on governments to change course.
Go back decades or even a century in the history of Britain's monarchy, indeed, and you will find plenty of examples of monarchs who felt a need to respond to popular and political pressure.
Or, will the popular program succumb to pressure from strident voices who insist that obesity is a public health emergency that can only be solved by expanding the role of government, limiting consumer choice, and demanding that regulators work against, rather than with, the food industry.
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Other attention-getting IPCC assertions turn out to have been based on the work of environmental pressure groups and popular magazines.
Of the 700 teachers who completed the ATL questionnaire, 52% thought pressure to be popular on social networking sites was also a source of strain.
But in this case it appears to be part of a wider trend: Myanmar's leaders seem prepared to pay more heed both to popular opinion at home and to pressure from the West.
At home in Pakistan, General Musharraf is under pressure both from the increasingly popular Islamic parties and from his own army.
While steeling themselves for possible poor reviews, the trio was in lively mood and keen to impress reporters that this was a labor of love back by popular demand -- not through studio pressure.
Indeed, executives may come under pressure if they are losing market share in a popular area.
After that, I felt enormous self-pressure to have all of my stories be just as popular.
If they do so, the United States will be under infinitely greater pressure to agree that the Sandinistas have received a bona fide popular mandate.
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.
Much of this early success was down to the founders' involvement with peer-to-peer file sharing site KaZaA, an at-times controversial but popular service which picked up the pieces when Napster crumbled under music industry pressure.
Apple may also feel pressure to release a new iPhone soon to compete with archrival Samsung, whose popular Samsung Galaxy S line has emerged as a credible competitor.
In other words social pressure is an essential ingredient in shaping what we like or favorite and what gets to be the most popular is a consequence of who you are with.
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