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Example sentences for: pressured

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A two year agony of fact-finding panels and legal actions ensued, with losers both male and female: Scapegoat men were singled out for behavior their profession had never before discouraged; women who told of being pressured for sex found themselves alone, laughed at, or forced by the hostile environment to leave.
Although Whitman told us she spoke with White House senior economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey regarding the need to get the financial markets open quickly, she denied he pressured her to declare the air was safe due to economic expediency.
Babbitt explained that he had probably lied to a lobbyist about being pressured in the matter by Clinton political aide Harold Ickes, but that he (Babbitt) was not now lying to senators about having lied to the lobbyist.
2. She pressured the president to find her a job in New York.
According to KSM, operatives volunteered for suicide operations and, for the most part, were not pressured to martyr themselves.