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International pressure led Israel to withdraw.
There were calls for socialist revolution from the International Workingmen's Association, revolts and unrest in the autonomous regions of Navarre and Catalonia, and pressure from the Catholic Church against the fledgling republic.
The ICAO defines an International Standard Atmosphere ( also known as ICAO Standard Atmosphere ), a model of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity with altitude in the Earth's atmosphere.
* International Standard Atmosphere, a definition of pressure, temperature, humidity and so forth, under the SI convention
* International Standard Atmosphere, a tabulation with altitude of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, etc.
In 2007 eBay, under pressure from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, banned all international sales of elephant-ivory products.
With pressure from a number of campaign groups organised through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a global movement to prohibit their use led to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
American pressure against the government escalated throughout 1983 and 1984, including attacks on Nicaraguan ports and oil installations and the laying of magnetic mines outside Nicaraguan harbours, actions condemned as illegal in 1986 by the International Court of Justice.
Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.
International pressure and domestic opposition eventually pressed the government toward a national election.
International pressure came also from the United Nations.
International pressure came also from the United Nations.
The International System of Units ( SI ) recognizes pressure as a derived unit with the dimension of force per area and designates the pascal ( Pa ) as its standard unit.
The aneroid altimeter is calibrated to show the pressure directly as an altitude above mean sea level, in accordance with a mathematical model defined by the International Standard Atmosphere ( ISA ).
In 1971, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) said that for the purposes of specifying the properties of substances, " the standard pressure " should be defined as precisely 100 kPa (≈ 750. 01 torr ) or 29. 53 inHg rather than the 101. 325 kPa value of “ one standard atmosphere ”.
* September 9, 2010-a 30 inch diameter high pressure natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 mi ( 3. 2 km ) west of San Francisco International Airport, killing 8, injuring 58, and destroying 38 homes.
It took twenty years of sustained pressure from campaigning organisations such as Survival International and the Forest Peoples Programme before, in March 2003, the Awá's land was finally demarcated.
The political pressure of the ideologically charged civil war, in conjunction with the excruciating need for aid and funds to finance imports, compelled FRELIMO to negotiate its first structural adjustment package ( SAP ) with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1986 ( commonly referred to as the Bretton Woods Institutions or International Financial Institutions — IFIs ).
* Pressure altitude – the air pressure in terms of altitude in the International Standard Atmosphere
Managed Pressure Drilling ( MPD ) is defined by the International Association of Drilling Contractors ( IADC ) as “ an adaptive drilling process used to more precisely control the annular pressure profile throughout the wellbore.
International pressure was also building on France to grant Algeria independence.
International recognition, which he believed to be forthcoming, as well as internal pressure from the fact that Greece would have been split in two governments would, the king hoped, force the junta to resign, leaving the field clear for him to return triumphant to Athens.
A world-wide storm of outrage and pressure from Western governments and the International Red Cross forced the communist regime to commute the death sentence and instead on 3 Tammuz it banished him to Kostroma for an original sentence of three years.

International and forced
Although trade unions in Benin represent up to 75 % of the formal workforce, the large informal economy has been noted by the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITCU ) to contain ongoing problems, including a lack of women's wage equality, the use of child labour, and the continuing issue of forced labour.
Caricom, which had been backing the peace deal, accused the United States, France, and the International community of failing in Haiti because they allegedly allowed a controversially elected leader to be violently forced out of office.
In November 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed an Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA ) case against Bridgestone, the parent company of Firestone, alleging “ forced labor, the modern equivalent of slavery ”, on the Firestone Plantation in Harbel.
Finally, in 1993, Nauru was forced to turn to the International Court of Justice at The Hague in The Netherlands.
In 2005, the International Labour Organization provided an estimate of 12. 3 million forced labourers in the world.
According to the International Labor Organization ( ILO ), an estimated 800, 000 people are subject to forced labour in Myanmar.
The Fatah subgroup Black September hijacked a Sabena flight on route to Vienna and forced it to land at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel.
* March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which was scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged by terrorist attack by New Left activists, being forced to reschedule its opening date to May 20.
The ICFTU lobbied for the ratification of the so-called " core labour standards " -- eight key conventions of the International Labour Organization concerning freedom of association, the abolition of child labour and forced labour and the elimination of discrimination in the workplace.
An interim report of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities ( 1993 ) says: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has put on trial, and in some cases has convicted, a number of politicians and military commanders indicted for forced deportations in that region.
Grant is then forced to assume control of the plane and attempt to land the 747 at Dulles International Airport despite his limited piloting experience.
Bokassa allegedly participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane ; however, the initial reports received by Amnesty International indicated only that the 100 or more school students who died actually suffocated or were beaten to death while being forced into a small jail cell following their arrest.
Subsequently forced into exile, after negotiations on his behalf by Amnesty International, he moved with his family to Palo Alto, California, and worked as a researcher in the Computer Science department at Stanford University.
Tensions were later raised after armed clashes between youth gangs forced the closure of Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport in late October.
World politics affected the lead-up to the Games with tension between the United States and Soviet Union intensifying, and the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) was forced to debate the participation of China, Taiwan, North Korea and East Germany because of the Cold War.
Today's independent Belize government holds the viewpoint that treaties signed by the UK are not binding on them, that the International Court of Justice's precedent is that the 1859 treaty is binding on Guatemala unless Guatemala can firmly prove the 1859 treaty was forced upon them by the UK, that international law says any breaches in the 1859 treaty by the UK would not excuse Guatemala's breaches and the UK never made " material breaches ," that Guatemala never inherited Spain's claim because Guatemala never occupied that part of Spain's New World colonies, and the right of a people to self-determination.
The Rome Statute Explanatory Memorandum, which defines the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, recognizes rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, " or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity " as crime against humanity if the action is part of a widespread or systematic practice.
His 1952 resignation as Minister of International Trade and Industry was the result of a blunt remark in the Diet that " it makes no difference to me if five or ten small businessmen are forced to commit suicide ," after Ikeda's policies favoring heavy industry were imposed.
However, the initial reports received by Amnesty International indicated only that the school students suffocated or were beaten to death while being forced into a small cell following their arrest.
What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

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