Single-issue pressure groups have always been a feature of politics, but apartisan voters are now shaking up American elections.
In 2006, the lower-key Knapman retired, to be replaced by Nigel Farage, a confident media performer, who pledged to make UKIP a "truly representative party", ending its image as a single-issue pressure group.
While recognizing that corporations seek to maximize their profits and are big and powerful, it is important not to fall into the typical biases that single-issue pressure groups such as some environmentalists bring to the table.
"Such increased usage has been compounded by an increase in the HGV weight limit to 44 tonnes and a move to super-single high-pressure tyres, which all adds to the damage caused to the bridge's road surfaces, " Mr Colford said.
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There's likely to be pressure for a single test, but still a private one.
The arrival of the phones, impressive as they may be, now puts the pressure on a single question: Are the phones good enough to keep the 79 million existing BlackBerry users from leaving the fold, or even to lure Android and iOS devotees to the platform?
Telemarketing is single call, scripted, high pressure, lower ticket sales items, small business to consumer sales.
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The spokeswoman said no single incident had caused the increased pressure.
At the same time, rising home prices and constrained inventories in the single-family market will put upward pressure on rental prices, hurting consumers.
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And of course it didn't help that oil set a new high with its largest single-day gain, putting further pressure on consumers who are already sweating record gas prices.
With debt servicing now the biggest item in the budget after labour and social affairs, with few valuable state assets left to sell, and with the need to respect the toughish debt criteria for countries that have adopted Europe's single currency, the government faces overwhelming pressure to show thrift.
In this case, with only pressure-sensitive input and a single button, the Mighty can accomplish some very sophisticated tasks.
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"In Greece the prime minister has promised a softening of the bailout terms, whereas in Germany the government is under pressure not to soften by one single millimetre, " our correspondent said.
As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.
Without state coddling the banks have been under pressure, first from Europe's single market in financial services and now from the birth of the euro.
Additional pressure mounted after Starbucks debuted a new single-serve brewer.
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Mircea Geoana, its foreign minister, has explained that, as a former ambassador to Washington who knows American politics well, he never remembered coming under such pressure from the United States over a single issue.
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It would be far easier for Italy to reduce its government budget deficit and trim its national debt, both required if it is to join in the single currency starting in 1999, without the constant pressure to transfer yet more resources to the south.
French President Francois Hollande said the meeting of the 17 eurozone heads of state, held after the leaders of the EU countries outside the single currency area had left, was the result of pressure from Spain and Italy quickly to find short-term measures to stabilize the markets.
The selling pressure Thursday could not be attributed to any major, single fundamental factor.
The pressure to merge is coming from Europe's looming single currency, the euro.
The new government is under the same grinding pressure to reduce the public deficit to qualify for the single currency.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Mr Blair was facing renewed pressure to mount a campaign for British entry into the single currency in the wake of his landslide election victory.
Pollard is a deviant man who sold his country out for money, and no sort of pressure from Israel or any other country should cause a single American official to relent.
They have not gained business: tellers are under pressure to serve a queue rather than chatting to a single customer, and in any case the appropriate salespeople are rarely at the ready.
With growth stalled, the pressure is on governments across Europe, not just ones using the single currency, to cut spending in order to meet debt obligations.
With the single market in peril and depression looming, Mrs Merkel would come under huge pressure to pay whatever it takes to save the rest of the euro zone.
John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, explained how "having a clear focus" and a bit of pressure was the secret to bringing in "the biggest regeneration in a single place since World War II" on time and within the budget.
According to the pressure group Greenpeace, expansion of the cattle industry in the Amazon is the single biggest cause of deforestation in the region.
But, bowing to pressure from party members, he now says that he would agree to a single candidate if there were an open primary.
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