What is "pressuring"

Usage examples of "pressuring".

Its management worshipped the super-capitalist ethic, expanding aggressively, milking governments for development contracts, pressuring the assembly for ever more convenient tax breaks, spreading subsidiaries across the Confederation, shafting the opposition at every opportunity.

A certain industrial concern whose initials are LockLever is pressuring a Texas rancher to sell his whole spread, which LockLever will turn into the wildest, wooliest, modernest dude ranch in the world.

Is my committee being charged with pressuring the Army to give David Schine a furlined cap?

But by pressuring the animals at a time when they were most vulnerable, by selectively killing off the young, by disrupting habitats, by taking out key components of the food webs that sustained communities of creatures, they did immense damage.

Pressuring the industry into restarting mass production was a difficult proposition.

A high-powered Washington law firm was hired to lobby congressmen into pressuring the EPA to lay off.

A moment later, holding her breath, she pulled him down on her by pressuring his stiffly pulsating cock forward until it rested tightly against her wetly quivering cuntal lips!

For the students now pressuring higher education to destandardize, to move toward super-industrial diversity, will win their battle.

Sprawling, Jaynes, and Maurice Mast fashioned a strategy of first indicting the smaller fish, then pressuring them to cut a deal and squeal on the big one.

If the activity is already positive, carefully avoid overemphasizing the external rewards and/or making them unduely controlling, pressuring, or negative.