group pressure in a sentence
Examples
- Last year, the groups pressured the White House to agree to set up a committee to recommend ways to fight religious persecution around the world.
- The council led protests against Jamaica's death penalty, a touchy topic as Britain and European rights groups pressure Jamaica to stop hangings of murder convicts.
- The suit asserted that mental stress from the est training, including mind control techniques, psychological and group pressures resulted in the death of her son.
- IOC vice-president Kevan Gosper says athletes must take more responsibility in the fight against drugs and believes peer group pressure could help clean up sport.
- In 2010, large number of physician owned medical groups pressured by new Medicare cuts have sold or contemplate selling their practices to hospitals and health systems.
- But Serb displeasure at Contact Group pressure to make concessions at the negotiating table could have contributed to the decision not to open the airport route.
- He stated that males and females perceive group pressure differently due to their different beliefs and values regarding conformity, reflected in masculine and feminine gender roles.
- Crutchfield states that there is a decrease in individual confidence in group pressure situations, and this decreased confidence is even greater in participants who remain independent.
- As a result of group pressure from the NAACP, the supreme court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in education was indeed unconstitutional and such practices were banned.
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based think tank for industrialized countries, and other international groups pressured South Korea to stop suppressing its labor movement.