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Example sentences for: pressuring

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Whether in asking these questions Starr himself was pressuring Steele--and whether that constitutes a "vicious attempt to threaten Steele's adoption" (Shapiro) in "genuine Gestapo fashion" (Al Hunt in the Wall Street Journal )--is a question the current criminal proceeding will not answer.
A friend of mine just quit a dentist who was pressuring him to whiten his teeth as a "preventive measure."
Instead of advocating legislation against abortion, PK instructs men to stop having sex outside marriage and to stop pressuring their wives and girlfriends to have abortions.
The New York Times and Washington Post noted that the United States has been pressuring Colombia to be more aggressive in its anti-drug campaign.
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.