But Mastro argued that the outtakes exposed a criminal conspiracy, in which Donziger was exploiting the corruption of the Ecuadoran system to pressure Chevron into a huge settlement.
As emerging economies become a bigger and more important part of the global financial system, pressure is being exerted on institutions to shift their governance to recognize the needs and aspirations of such nations.
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And while the inescapable and obvious result is that increased financial pressure is placed on the private health insurance system at the expense of removing some of the financial pressure on the government run Medicare system, what may not be quite so obvious is the additional financial pressure placed on even the youngest and healthiest people in the private health insurance pools.
But forecasters also said the path of the storm will depend on a high-pressure system over the southern United States.
As the precipitation intensified and the low pressure system became more intense, basic physics said more cooling was on the way.
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When there is no wind, for example, heat builds up in a city, creating a low-pressure system that pulls air into the city.
If there was a failure in the air supply system then the pressure would decrease more slowly but still eventually match the outside air pressure.
The past two years it got stuck on top of southern England - and that locked a low-pressure system in place which in turn brought misery and rain.
He forecast a cold, frosty and mainly dry night in Britain and warned that the system of low pressure was likely to wreak more havoc in Germany and Poland overnight.
Meteorologists were blaming the nor'easter on the collision of two storm systems: cold air traveling south from Canada bumping into a moist low pressure system heading north from the Carolinas.
In the weather, we can see positive feedback when a series of hot, sunny days create a static high pressure system which keeps storms from moving in to cool things off.
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Northern states including Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are closer to normal rainfall levels as a high pressure system over the middle of the country pushed wet weather northward during the last month.
There's this low pressure system sitting out in the Bay of Bengal which is sort of nudging up exactly to the same area which is going to dump, I think it's 200 millimeters of rain, a huge amount of rain.
If other countries can use the American system to apply pressure on Members of Congress and the executive branch - and even further their agendas by helping elect or defeat candidates and incumbents - then is the United States not compelled to do the same around the world to promote its own interests?
The LaCie 4big Quadra incorporates the ultra-reliable Noctua cooling system that offers superior pressure and airflow performance.
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Its patented reduced-pressure distillation system can reportedly convert 10 liters of seawater into 3.7 liters of fresh water.
The system is under historic pressure (financial and other) to change in ways that have not been encountered for more than a century.
Using a force control system reacting to the pressure on the feet, HyQ can navigate and traverse irregular surfaces and adjust its pace to overcome obstacles of different sizes and shapes.
The additional paying customers with what many believe will be a pent up demand for medical care service are already expected to stress the health care system, putting more pressure on primary care doctors like internists and family doctors.
Given the two red flags that had been thrown up previously, one would have expected that as a precaution a cement plug would have been placed somewhere in the wellbore as a secondary pressure seal before this primary pressure control system (heavy mud) was evacuated from the wellbore.
The windowing system has already come under pressure amid plummeting DVD sales and rising digital piracy.
Indeed, he sees the veto system as a kind of pressure valve.
One company, KCI based in San Antonio, Texas, handles more than half a million support calls a year for their Negative Pressure Wound therapy system.
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Any advancements made by Research in Motion and the release of its BB10 operating system will only increase the pressure on Microsoft to execute, but this could be both good and bad.
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The Justice Committee (at 9.30am) continues its look at the treatment of women by the criminal justice system, with evidence from pressure groups the Prison Reform Trust and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The essence of microlending as he devised it was not simply that the loans were small, or that the rates were friendly, or even that the group system created a culture of pressure to repay the lender.
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.
We are a long way from that happening, but given the international spotlight now focused on South Africa's police and judicial system, there will be pressure to ensure that this case does not drag on, or do anything to discredit this country.
At 8:20 p.m. on the day of the explosion the pressure data suggest there was a constant flow of sea water being pumped into the drill pipe that was displacing the heavier mud system which was the primary pressure control for the well.
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