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Example sentences for: pressuring

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His committee's conservatives are pressuring Hyde to do something, anything, to make the scandal viable again.
The nomination gets lots of space elsewhere, but only the LAT infuses the vote with racial overtones from the git-go, saying in the first sentence that the vote "killed the candidacy of the first black ever nominated to be Air Force secretary," even though the issues that brought him down were discrepancies in his statements about his career as a pilot and his apparent practice of pressuring subordinates to buy Amway products from him.
The RLC says it's trying to keep the GOP "civil" by pressuring Forbes to maintain a high "tenor."
. As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.
One main reason for the softening, says the paper, is that Clinton doesn't want to appear to be pressuring Reno.