Political pressure on Europe s central bank may be the reason for that timid move.

Some of this pressure may be seeping through and affecting ECB policy decisions.

I know that you're strong, but political pressure is even stronger.

In an era of extraordinarily high unemployment, political pressures only compound the problem.

As the political pressure mounts, the university s administrators need only listen to the students.

Political pressure on the ECB today is much greater than in Duisenberg s time.

In fact, the inclusion of homosexuality as a pathological condition suggests the extent to which psychiatric diagnosis has been shaped by social and political currents.

In 1987, political pressure in the US led to the elimination of homosexuality as a diagnosis from the nationally accepted guidelines.

Habrahabr user SSE claims that political pressure on Yandex wasn't a secret

Here, political pressure, including from the US Treasury, was put on the supposedly independent Board not to make the change.

They are going about it in ways that reflect their different resource endowments, industrial histories, and political pressures.

What should these be? We know from experience that neither political pressures nor economic sanctions hurt Saddam enough.

French politicians have been the most aggressive in putting political pressure on the ECB to relax its interest rate normalization policy.

We know from experience that neither political pressures nor economic sanctions hurt Saddam enough.

Shouldn't equal consideration for the political constraints faced by President Kostunica and the sensitivities of the Serbian people be given?

Russia s use of natural gas to exert economic and political pressure on Ukraine has caused grave concern in the West.

The hope is that those organizations will in turn apply political pressure on Ethiopia to free the Zone9 defendants.

This would be unprecedented and would be arriving at a time when political and social pressures are high, further exerting undue pressure on the IEBC.

Political suicide.

Political Interference?

The explanation is partly political.

Pakistan s Political Renaissance

External political pressure on the ECB and its president, Jean Claude Trichet, to lower interest rates and talk the euro down surely would increase.

But changing Netanyahu s mind will not be easy not least because of the domestic political pressure that he faces.

2015 is a year in which Mexicans go to the polls in local and federal elections, and political pressure and interests have already begun to manifest themselves.

...Media pressure

With political pressures encroaching on the bank s policy decisions and a faux consensus, it is not surprising that there is now nostalgia in Frankfurt for earlier times and for Wim Duisenberg, even among his former critics.

Even that small number is likely to diminish, as Lukashenka keeps up political, financial, and legal pressure on them.

An Assassination in Belgrade

Israel s Political Earthquake

A political solution will have to be found.

Now, it's a political weapon.

Political graffiti in Caracas.

I need political asylum.

As the talks move ahead, the United States and its allies must stick to a dual track policy intensifying political pressure and economic sanctions, while negotiating seriously.

In Japan, fear of North Korea s nuclear threat and anger over the abduction of Japanese citizens generates powerful political pressure against engagement.

The number of inefficient workers protected by these measures is offset by the number of efficient workers laid off by foreign multinationals responding to political pressures in their home country.

Forget the pressure.

Oppression before the elections

Pressure on Vkontakte

Tom had his blood pressure taken.

Tom is feeling the pressure.

We were monitoring his PO2 of his blood, his heart rate, his blood pressure.

Japan s New Model Political Leadership

Political representation must be pluralistic.