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Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement pressure group, estimates that construction on over 2,000 dwellings could now begin or resume.
“現(xiàn)在就和平”（一個以色列反對定居點的壓力團體）估計現(xiàn)在有超過2,000個臨時住所開始或恢復興建中。
Less than half of American cancer patients receive adequate painkillers, according to the American Pain Foundation, another pressure-group.
據(jù)另一壓力集團美國疼痛基金會（American Pain Foundation）的調(diào)查，一半以上的美國癌癥患者沒有足夠的止痛藥。
The running here has been made by a self-appointed pressure group calling itself Better History, formed in 2006 to advise the Conservative shadow education team.
而這場運動是由一個2006年成立，自封為更好的歷史的壓力團體發(fā)起的，該團體旨在為保守黨影子教育團隊提供咨詢參謀。

In America's religious marketplace, notes Chris Sugden, of Anglican Mainstream, a pressure-group, people who are dissatisfied with their parishes or bishops simply get up and leave.
ECONOMIST: When you're a church, breaking up is hard to do
According to a survey by the CBI, a business pressure-group, manufacturing export orders were up in the three months to January, and companies are more optimistic about prospects for the coming year than at any time since 1995.
ECONOMIST: British exports: Trading out of trouble The

a group of people who work together to try to influence what other people or the government think about a particular subject, in order to achieve the things they want

A pressure group is an organized group of people who are trying to persuade a government or other authority to do something, for example, to change a law.