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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.
“现在就和平”（一个以色列反对定居点的压力团体）估计现在有超过2,000个临时住所开始或恢复兴建中。
Less than half of American cancer patients receive adequate painkillers, according to the American Pain Foundation, another pressure-group.
据另一压力集团美国疼痛基金会（American Pain Foundation）的调查，一半以上的美国癌症患者没有足够的止痛药。
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.
而这场运动是由一个2006年成立，自封为更好的历史的压力团体发起的，该团体旨在为保守党影子教育团队提供咨询参谋。

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.