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Example sentences for: pressuring

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The RLC says it's trying to keep the GOP "civil" by pressuring Forbes to maintain a high "tenor."
A friend of mine just quit a dentist who was pressuring him to whiten his teeth as a "preventive measure."
Both Times and the WP stress the partisan carping the surplus has inspired: the Democrats want credit for passing a 1993 tax increase without a single Republican vote, and the Republicans want credit for pressuring Clinton in 1995 to commit to a balanced budget.
His committee's conservatives are pressuring Hyde to do something, anything, to make the scandal viable again.
True, ESPN is one of the most profitable TV networks and in recent months has started pressuring cable systems to increase the fees they pay for the right to carry it.