pressure
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Many HOAs are under pressure to meet stricter safety standards enacted after the 2021 Surfside condo collapse in Florida, including bans on underfunding structural reserve accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Several former British territories inherited the same electoral model and have also faced pressure to change it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
The pressure intensified after the Fed on Wednesday held its benchmark rate at 3.5% to 3.75% for a fifth consecutive meeting, with three policymakers dissenting in favor of an increase.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Speaking to the BBC, Bradshaw said high temperatures and drought conditions have placed all areas of farming under increasing pressure.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
But with its 8-inch-thick walls, it can withstand far more pressure than your pot.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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They told the BBC the partnership had raised "broader questions" about how national parks were funded and whether "increasing financial pressures" were leading authorities to seek commercial partnerships that "conflict with their environmental purpose".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We worry about rising memory cost pressures but see Apple’s position as unrivaled,” Bernstein’s Mark Newman added in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government aims to bolster the economy and counter pressures from U.S. tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Memory cost pressures are also showing up in Apple’s margins: Excluding tariff refunds, Apple’s gross margin actually declined 120 basis points quarter over quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
All these aching creatures, thinks von Rumpel, toiling under different pressures.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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He said Beijing had pressured Britain to agree to the construction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Since March, bonds have been pressured by both rising energy prices and solid labor-market data, which shifted investors’ rate expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"He never cried foul, never claimed he was uninformed or pressured, and never suggested there were problems with the discovery materials he and his counsel had reviewed for two years that should have been challenged."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
It has pressured spreads on longer hyperscaler bonds that mature in a decade or more the most, as the below BondCliQ chart shows.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
We had evidence from a fourth doctor to whom Myers confided that he was being pressured to give false testimony against Walter McMillian.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Stronger margins protect airlines in tough times like the current moment, as jet-fuel spikes are pressuring the companies’ bottom lines, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sources familiar with the operation but not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. federal agents had been in contact with Guzmán López, and were pressuring him to surrender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Callum Hiller, defending, said Siddiqi came from a good background and that others had also been "pressuring" him.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In both the DR Congo and Cameroon, US lawyer David said the International Organization for Migration is pressuring deportees to sign up for its "voluntary" programme to be sent home.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
“I hope I haven’t been pressuring you to do this,” she said.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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