• Companies, under increasing pressure to protect their profits, will focus more attention on white-collar productivity.

    ECONOMIST: Business

  • But as these economies face their most severe recession in more than three decades, governments are coming under pressure to protect the jobless.

    ECONOMIST: Asia goes on the dole

  • The Philippine government is also coming under pressure to do more to protect the Filipino clan.

    BBC: Malaysia soldiers attack armed Filipino clan in Borneo

  • It is designed to force Wall Street to produce honest stock research and to protect analysts from pressure within the firm to issue upbeat forecasts in order to attract investment banking fees.

    FORBES: Wall Street Buys Peace

  • As distributors and retailers consolidate and enhance their buying power, Cooper needs a broad product line in a few carefully selected areas to protect itself against pricing pressure.

    FORBES: Attractive And Available

  • The lawmaker said he plans to pressure the government to enact laws to protect albinos and other minorities.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The acrylic plate to protect the LCD from water pressure and shocks is 1.5 times thicker than conventional point-and-shoot cameras.

    ENGADGET: Casio trots out world's slimmest shock-resistant digicam: EX-G1 (video)

  • Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, has signalled a broad opposition to development on protected land, as have many Conservative MPs and pressure groups such as the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

    ECONOMIST: The green belt is sacred. It should not be

  • Public interest, awareness and pressure forced the government to move swiftly to protect a heritage site once the evidence was widely known.

    CNN: Air pollution kills, but deaths can be prevented

  • This meant that countries holding USDs as reserve currency were under increasing pressure to convert their USDs into gold to protect their own positions.

    FORBES: Our Fiat Dollar Has Cost the United States $80 Trillion

  • Labor unions lobbied Clinton to issue the new rules before leaving office, asserting they would put pressure on companies that do business with the federal government to protect worker rights.

    CNN: Clinton contracting rules opposed by business

  • Pressure on the government to stay away from unpopular decisions and protect regional interests of allies is likely to increase in the coming months as the country readies for several state elections this year and the federal election by May 2014.

    WSJ: India Party Pulls Support From Government

  • "There needs to be a radical rethink in society to revalue childhood and protect it as a precious time - not time to put pressure on children to grow up far too fast, " said Ms Freegard.

    BBC: Modern childhood 'ends at age of 12'

  • As a result, pressure on the government and the courts will increase in the years ahead to protect the IPR of not just the foreign companies, but the local companies as well.

    FORBES: Innovation and IPR in China: Part II

  • Mr Simitis has also resisted American pressure to make it easier to prosecute suspected terrorists by enacting laws to help protect witnesses, to improve security for judges and to allow hearings in secret.

    ECONOMIST: Greece

  • When growth and inflation begin to put pressure on yields and the dollar, emerging markets central banks are likely to protect themselves by hedging duration, but they can only limit their currency losses if they actually get rid of their dollars.

    FORBES: How And When Does The 'Real' Currency War Begin?

  • Miners continued their pressure, leading to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, marshalling public force to protect their health in the private workplace.

    CNN: Commentary: Don't cut our (public) health care

  • The death of Mr Calipari - who threw himself over Ms Sgrena to protect her from the gunfire - caused public outrage in Italy and intensified pressure on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to pull Italian troops out of Iraq.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Disagreement on Italy agent death

  • Mr Straw restated his aim of creating 14, 000 more prison places by 2014, saying the government would be "failing in its fundamental duty to protect the public" if it did not increase capacity to meet the anticipated pressure on the system.

    BBC: Jail reformers 'forget victims'

  • Baumgartner's team built him a special pressurised capsule to protect him on the way up, and for his descent he wore a next generation, full pressure suit made by the same company that prepares the flight suits of astronauts.

    BBC: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier

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