Under legislative and public pressure, schools are working vigorously to raise academic standards.

In addition to legislative pressure, critics of the Administration's policy held news conferences to try to influence the President.

Even in the face of intense legislative and regulatory pressure, the company said that its growth as student lender remained compelling.

It owns property, is capable of paying salaries, of receiving money and of responding to legislative pressures in the process.

Q. The department has on occasion suggested consolidating some offices, but public outcry and legislative pressure have prevented it.

In the interim, many school systems are trying to come to grips with the problem, even without legislative pressure.

(He accepted but did not make it, saying he was kept away by last-minute legislative pressures.)

The arrangement also insulates the agency from legislative pressure.

She considers the political and legislative pressure on government after section 3 or 4 overwhelming to the extent that the concept of parliamentary sovereignty should be "eliminated".

Bills to comply with the Help America Vote Act and reform of the Rockefeller drug laws, now in conference committees, need legislative pressure to become law.