It will take all of Mr Erdogan's skills to resist pressure to go into Iraq.
We know, however, that women can resist pressure to cave in to superior forces.
And the government in Warsaw will resist pressure for too many cuts, particularly to cohesion funds.
The chief reason was that it could resist pressure from outside investors, because it is almost impossible to take over.
Chancellor George Osborne should resist pressure from banks to reverse planned reforms of the financial sector, consumer group Which? has said.
Should the world-trade talks ever get close to a deal, the government would be unlikely to resist pressure to reduce its dairy protection.
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All that said, the banks that regard themselves as strongest have a particular incentive to resist pressure from the Bank of England and the Treasury not to take too much of the money on offer in tomorrow's auction and in the so-called Funding for Lending scheme that will be launched next month.
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Our Chancellor of the Exchequer, who in December will resist pressure to loosen constraints on public spending (the so-called "spending envelope" will not be increased, which means that any increase in public-sector investment will be financed by cuts elsewhere), is alarmed that backstop measures to reduce America's public sector deficit are draconian - and, if implemented, would force the US (and probably Britain) back into recession.
In spite of his isolation, he has managed to resist the pressure on the British rebate.
But it was clear that nobody could resist the pressure for this new state.
The Swiss have tried in the past to resist upward pressure on their currency.
Mr Fujimori now looks far less able to resist international pressure for democratic reforms.
So far it has managed to resist the pressure from its two biggest shareholders.
She will also resist any pressure to allow the European Central Bank to lend directly to governments.
Given all of that it will be very hard for her to resist the pressure to lower standards.
He vowed to resist EU pressure concerning Greenland's policy on rare earths.
If the two Slavic republics can patch up a deal, then it will be harder for Kosovo to resist international pressure to accept some sort of association with Yugoslavia.
Even skeptics will struggle to resist the pressure for further money printing from politicians and those mainstream economists who have staked their careers on the belief that deter-mined central banks can always conjure up the necessary demand to keep economies growing.
We hope this fall the Administration is able to resist political pressure to resurrect SOPA, the Commerce Department is able to use this comment period as an opportunity to get more solid information on the scope and real cost of the problem of infringement, and that everyone this time examines the costs of solutions before proposing them.
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And though it has been long established that teenagers who have good communication with their parents are more likely to resist negative peer pressure, new research shows that it is a boy's mother who is the most influential when it comes to risky behavior, not only with alcohol and drugs but also in preventing both early and unprotected sex.
Both boys and girls need to hear from their parents about casual sex, peer pressure and how to resist it, date rape and how to be respectful in a relationship.
And often planners, under pressure from locals, resist development.
The tiny compartment that the film-maker sits in is made from thick steel, which is able to resist the 1, 000 atmospheres of pressure he experienced at full ocean depth.
The best lesson Congress might take from the teenagers is that peer pressure is the hardest thing to resist.
Will Witty be able to resist megadeals going forward if his company remains under pressure?
But the pressure on ministers since Ann Abraham's second report has been too great to resist completely any more.
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