As a result, terror-free investing can bring pressure to bear on foreign-owned and -operated companies on what might otherwise be described as an "extraterritorial" basis.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney testifies on financial warfare

Arafat is trying to bring international pressure to bear on Israel to abandon the housing project.

CNN: Arafat arrives in Washington

It might be possible, he argued, to engage the Catholic Church, "possibly with the help of Bishop Philbin", to bring further pressure to bear on the prisoner and his family.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Opposition politicians and civil-society activists hoping that the forthcoming EU presidency would bring outside pressure to bear on Fidesz have been disappointed.

ECONOMIST: Hungarian politics

These nefarious forces made it impossible for Obama to bring the sort of pressure to bear on Israel that would have placated the Arab world and paved the way for a peaceful settlement.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's path to victory

It remains an open question as to how much pressure the SEC will bring to bear on fund companies and fund directors.

FORBES: Insult And Injury

Foreign politicians from America and Britain, for example, may bring a lot of pressure to bear on a dispute for a short amount of time, but inevitably they come and go according to the whims and demands of domestic politics.

ECONOMIST: Conflict resolution

For what this really does is removes much of the pressure that the Troika (ECB, EU Commission and IMF) can bring to bear on the Greek Government to just shut up and force austerity down the throats of the citizenry.

FORBES: The Real Greek Solution: Democracy