But pressuring the American professional sports into change is going to be exceedingly difficult.

His threat to impose court-drawn lines was credited with pressuring the officials to act.

"We did a good job of pressuring them.

Still, pressuring food companies could be effective.

I think we may have shocked them with how we kept fighting and pressuring Warner."

And Daschle, eager to hold on to his majority, refrained from pressuring her to vote along party lines.

Everything is predicated on pressuring the quarterback.

Jackson's spin: He can do more good by pressuring Wall Street to invest in poor communities.

She continued, "We are doing a disservice to women by pressuring them that it is less acceptable or neurotic to have a mastectomy."

The Legislature and advocates for the mentally ill also helped by pressuring the Governor to spend more of the savings on community programs.

Stewart opened the scoring with a 33rd-minute strike, but Honduras, pressuring throughout the second half for an equalizer, scored at 60 minutes.

Marshall took down 13 rebounds against a St. John's team that kept pressuring the Huskies.

"If we knew a way other than patients pressuring insurance companies and suing them, we'd be happy to follow that course," Dr. Freed said.

Republicans have criticized Mr. Clinton for, in their view, prematurely pressuring the parties to secure a final peace deal.

Some Iranians worry that Western governments, in pressuring the government hard to abandon any nuclear development, will win the day for the hard-liners.

The company arranges guided hikes, rents out climbing and hiking gear and offers clear information without pressuring customers.

"In some cases,children were deliberately targeted: their iconic value as representatives of both innocence and society's future renders them potent in pressuring populations."

The Jalisco officials also cited signs of evidence tampering, pressuring of witnesses and other irregularities in the full investigation, which spanned seven years.

And on Tuesday, the Bush administration succeeded in pressuring China to limit the growth of its clothing exports to the United States.

Some students and faculty members have expressed concern that the allegations against Professor Edmonds are aimed at pressuring professors and others to be "politically correct."

He admits in his writing to pressuring Johnny Zazula and Anthrax into firing Turbin from the band.

Like Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Clinton will have to deal with competing interests pressuring him in contradictory directions.

And it bars lawmakers from pressuring lobby firms to hire favored partisans, a signature trait of the last G.O.P. majority.

However the central government is pressuring Gujarat state government to shift some lions in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary.