Attitudes toward girls and disabled children are changing, at least in the cities, where the pressures of farming do not bear so heavily on a couple.

"Any pressure to deprive our people from their right will not bear any fruit," he was quoted as saying on state-run television.

His decision may also indicate his approach to appointing judges to the Federal courts, since the same competing pressures bear on that issue.

Now Mr. Black will be bringing that pressure to bear on the Democrats.

A pressure borne from the years of stigma and doubt and bitterness the Stone brothers had endured.

Ms. Jiang has a single child, a 2-year-old daughter, and would like to have another child, like many Chinese women who feel the pressure of Chinese tradition to bear a son.

Bring all your diplomatic pressure to bear in the next two weeks, and if he is not prepared to back down, support the United States in whatever level of action we have to take.

Political pressures, too, are bearing down on private Swiss banks.

I think somebody's been bringing pressure to bear on Bob.

It seems that various and conflicting pressures were bearing down on the duo at the time.