Eventually, central banks will need to exit quantitative easing and zero interest rates, putting downward pressure on risky assets, including commodities.

The Great Recession has exacerbated inequality, with cutbacks in basic social expenditures and with high unemployment putting downward pressure on wages.

Tighter regulation of lending standards has shut out an important source of global investment demand, putting downward pressure on interest rates.

Those who fear geopolitical catastrophe will sell assets, putting downward pressure on their value, only if there are other, safer assets that they see that they can buy.

Everyone keeps putting so much pressure on me.

You're still putting too much pressure in your hands.

This encourages short side speculation, which places downward pressure on the underlying bonds.

Prices were also subjected to downward pressure as the base metal market weakened.

Only when you want the pressure to go back, make a downward gesture.

As long as interest rates remain low, there is no downward pressure on public investment.

Actual appreciation would lead to actual deflation and further downward pressure on domestic interest rates.

Conversion would occur outside the market, and thus would not put downward pressure on the dollar.

Russia's foreign ministry warned against putting pressure on Myanmar on June 8.

I have all the security and I'm putting pressure on the trigger.

Otherwise it's putting a lot of pressure on creation of a state.

Thus, deflationary pressure will to some extent result in downward quantity adjustments, which will deepen the real crisis.

Putting pressure on the poppy farmers in Afghanistan alone will not solve the problem.

A disorderly default, and the resulting downward pressure on the euro, would unavoidably cause Chinese investments to lose value.

On September 13, the United States Federal Reserve announced that in the coming months it would purchase some 85 billion of long term securities per month, with the aim of putting downward pressure on long term interest rates and supporting growth.

We live on a human dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth.

This downward pressure on prices has allowed Western central banks to follow expansionary monetary policies, underpinning higher employment and growth.

Trade and immigration (legal and illegal), if left unchecked, will continue to exert downward pressure on rich countries labor markets.

If this means putting pressure on some actors within the EU s own ranks, so be it.

Weakening of growth as well as jobless growth were putting pressure on social security and welfare systems.

After all, according to conventional wisdom, global competition moves jobs to low cost countries and puts downward pressure on wages everywhere else.

Putting limited restrictions on the use of outer space by relying on international pressure and national political willingness.

Thus, emerging economies with large twin deficits and other macroeconomic fragilities may experience further downward pressure on their financial markets and growth rates.

It's going to be a downward slope, downward opening parabola.

Nevertheless, the more Brazil delays addressing these issues, the more it will get worse, putting pressure on its population.

Rising demands accompanied by rising expectations are putting pressure on Government capacities to mobilize resources to meet these demands.

So, while this latest bear market rally may continue for a bit longer, renewed downward pressure on stocks and other risky assets is inevitable.

It's still downward sloping, but it's less downward sloping now, right?

The expectation was that Russia would join the United States in putting pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

The protests mobilized hundreds of thousands of Russians, putting huge pressure on central, regional, and local government authoritiesfor several months.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

Italy s Downward Spiral

Indeed, in some areas, prices are again under downward pressure, which could worsen if mortgage finance becomes less readily available and more expensive, as is possible.

The downward pressure on wages in those jobs was a result of global competition and placed serious limits on women's bargaining power in relation to wages.

At the end of March 1994, these reserves had been further reduced to R7.9 billion. 99 This slide continues to exert downward pressure on the rand.

Iran, like North Korea, will continue to test Obama s capacity to build international alliances aimed at putting pressure on defiant states.

The mechanics are familiar dollar liquidity flees to emerging countries in search of higher yields, putting upward pressure on their currencies.

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

The strengthening exchange rate is putting additional pressure on the rickety southern European and French economies, undermining their already low competitiveness.

The result was an expanding stream of displaced persons and rural migrants who were putting increasing pressure on the urban centres.

The US also shows signs of understanding the importance of maintaining a multiethnic Kirkuk and is putting pressure on its Kurdish allies.