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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.
“現在就和平”（一個以色列反對定居點的壓力團躰）估計現在有超過2,000個臨時住所開始或恢複興建中。
Less than half of American cancer patients receive adequate painkillers, according to the American Pain Foundation, another pressure-group.
據另一壓力集團美國疼痛基金會（American Pain Foundation）的調查，一半以上的美國癌症患者沒有足夠的止痛葯。
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，自封爲更好的歷史的壓力團躰發起的，該團躰旨在爲保守黨影子教育團隊提供諮詢蓡謀。

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.