put pressure on

Yet Kennedy, in his role as HHS secretary, could put pressure on Makary to relax regulations on stem cells, Knoepfler notes.

And I was really lucky that both my mom and my dad never put pressure on me to pursue it as a career.

Trump has recently put pressure on Powell to resign so he could have more control, but Powell has refused.

The prime minister has said he will not put pressure on Labour MPs over their votes on whether to legalise assisted dying.

Pointedly, he said he won't “say or do anything that will put pressure on other people in relation to their vote,” when asked whether he thought the health secretary had broken the understanding that the government should remain neutral on the issue.