bring pressure to bear upon

Example Sentences

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Accordingly the Federal Reserve Act contains a number of provisions designed to bring pressure to bear upon these to enter the system immediately.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

I wish we had an empty cottage where we could put them" said Donovan; "but I am afraid all I can do is to bring pressure to bear upon the authorities.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna

The answers of the other powers were unsatisfactory or evasive, none of them being willing to bring pressure to bear upon the government of young Alfonso, while the Carlist war was on his hands.

From The United States and Latin America by Latane, John Holladay

If you take an empty vessel and bring pressure to bear upon it, in go the sides.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander

Any attempt to bring pressure to bear upon an employer to make any change in his business was also forbidden, and the common law opposition was left unrepealed.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts