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The pressure on them to make a decision ratcheted up a notch this week with the news story .

本周，随着《汽车新闻》这篇报道的出台，他们将面临的压力进一步升级，必须给出一个说法。

So far , she has ratcheted up german support for the currency while holding the coalition together .

迄今为止，她在组建联合政府之时，就已经逐渐增加了德国对欧元的支持。

Since the violence ratcheted up , three-quarters of his mainly american patients have decided that crossing the border for half-price drilling is not worth the risk .

因为暴力逐渐升级，它主要的美国病人中，四分之三的人觉得为了半价的钻孔冒险穿过边界是不值得的。

Though he pledged that policies supporting economic growth will continue this year , he admitted that the scale is being ratcheted down as the government worries about excesses and future strains on its finances .

尽管他承诺今年仍将继续实施支持经济增长的政策，但也承认由于政府担心经济过剩以及未来的财政压力，其规模正在逐渐缩小。

But the results ratcheted up the pressure on the company for the current holiday quarter .

但这些业绩加大了该公司在当前假日季度的压力。