The question is whether the EPA will respond to political pressure and delay or scrap the more stringent emissions rules.

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And Livingston too, under pressure from DeLay, began sending signals that he was not inclined to let a censure alternative come to the House floor.

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But if the NTIA follows the recommendations of the advisory board the FCC will face stiff pressure to delay or cancel the provisional license it granted LightSquared to operate early last year.

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The ObamaCare rules will also pressure doctors to delay re-admissions.

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Since both claims were filed on the same day in October 2004, some Europeans believe that America put pressure on the WTO to delay the Boeing judgment.

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The US announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan, coupled with an exit strategy that becomes operational barely 18 months from now, means that Pakistanis will be under great pressure to dismantle these groups without further delay.

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But under pressure from Wall Street, regulators decided to delay implementing most of even the watered-down new regulations.

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Despite these considerations, some observers believe the Navy is under so much pressure to save money in the near term that it will delay construction of the second Ford-class carrier by two years.

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While the Soviet Union may have receded for the moment from these demands by settling for a more ambiguous formulation of the resolution and an affirmation that political and diplomatic measures would receive maximum use, the principal Soviet objective seems to have been served: to delay U.S. action and to increase the pressure against unilateral American military steps.

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Greenpeace, a pressure group, has bought land on the proposed runway site and intends to delay the planning process with procedural challenges.

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DeLay, in many ways, thrives on just this kind of pressure.

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However useful as a pressure tactic, actually indicting Lewinsky for perjury would have guaranteed a long trial and an even longer delay in the prosecutor's pursuit of his real targets.

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