This may seem overly intrusive, but offshore banking centers have been under increasing pressure to stop illegal activity.
This year, under pressure to stop adding to its debt, the legislature must make its pension contributions out of tax money.
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The Democrats retort that Mr Graham is using Mr Reid's immigration initiative as an excuse and has merely succumbed to his own party's pressure to stop working across the aisle.
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Malaysia's government, which faces a national election within less than four months, is under pressure to stop cross-border incursions that have resulted in occasional kidnappings by Filipino gunmen in past years.
Obama concluded that the commanders were trying to box him into McChrystal's preferred strategy, and he called them on the Oval Office carpet to demand that the leaks and pressure tactics stop.
Insurers and employer groups have stepped up pressure to stop early-elective deliveries because they can lead to malpractice suits when things go wrong and much higher costs if a baby ends up in a neonatal intensive-care unit.
The move is intended to pressure Tehran to stop enriching uranium, which can be used for civilian nuclear purposes but also to build warheads.
We would've liked a little more pressure required to stop the track when touching the top of the wheel (we found ourselves accidentally stopping tracks we were merely trying to beatmatch on a couple occasions), but otherwise, it's great... and we eventually learned that we could avoid the drama by keeping our hands to the outer edge as Native Instruments intended.
Obama administration officials said they intended to use the conference as a platform to mount international pressure on Iran to stop its illicit nuclear proliferation activities.
Since April of last year, Independent International Investment Research had put pressure on Google to stop using the trademark, echoing sentiments of a number of similar applications in the U.S. and Europe.
Those two albums were less creative than Jailbreak, but the label pressure didn't stop, and when producer Tony Visconti couldn't fit another Thin Lizzy studio album into his schedule, the band decided to put together a live record instead.
They must stop panicking under pressure because they're getting in good positions but making schoolboy errors.
Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.
"We can stop trying to put pressure on the opposition scrum so they stay up, we want to put pressure on them, but if they fall over all the time we're getting penalised, " Hansen said.
An additional factor is political pressure on the administration from Congress to stop the leaks, he said.
Baroness Ashton has said the EU was considering sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, to "put as much pressure as possible" on Libya to stop the violence.
While the Sudanese government and the rebels continue to make excuse after excuse, the world powers on the Security Council have at least managed to pass a resolution that puts more pressure on the regime in Khartoum to stop the fighting.
When U.S. government actors put pressure on American companies like Amazon to stop providing Web services to WikiLeaks, mirror sites flowered to ensure that these materials would stay available, even after the main WikiLeaks.org site was taken off the domain name system.
Basildon Hospital chief executive Clare Panniker said the increase would ease pressure on its accident and emergency department and stop bed blocking.
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They had been at war directly or by proxy for more than a decade, and were under increasing pressure from the international mediators and donors to stop.
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The gold standard had many flaws, but the chief virtue of fixing the exchange rate and constraining the supply of credit was to stop politicians succumbing to the inevitable pressure to respond to crises by debauching the currency, resulting in long-term harm to the livelihoods and living standards of their citizens.
Security Council to pressure Mr. Assad to enforce his pledge to stop the killing or face further sanctions by Western states.
And Senator Christopher Dodd, who faces a tough re-election bid, has come under pressure to explain why he did not try to stop such bonuses when he helped to write the bail-out legislation.
United Nation's children's agency Unicef, which estimates that this pernicious trade affects more than one million children worldwide, says great pressure is also put on boys and girls to stop them running away or testifying against their captors.
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Environmentalists also seek to pressure corrupt, incompetent, and underfunded African governments to stop poaching.
The people who lose their jobs would stop spending money, which would create additional downward pressure on the economy.
But if hackers and internet junkies can find ways to stop corporations from supporting noxious bills and maybe even put pressure on a few elected officials, that still leaves countless Americans with very little knowledge of these bills.
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You get to move your company around to any of the EU or EEA countries (and absolutely no one at all is allowed to stop you in any manner at all) and this puts pressure on each country to keep the corporation tax rate low.
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Political pressure has already led credit-card firms and PayPal, an online payment system, to stop customers transferring cash for online wagers.
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