The phrase "a sort of pressure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or situation that is somewhat like pressure but not exactly the same, often implying a vague or less intense form of pressure.
Example: "There was a sort of pressure to conform to the group's expectations, even if I didn't fully agree with them."
Alternatives: "a kind of pressure" or "a type of pressure".
Aden's residents "think it is a sort of pressure on the United States and the West, that Al Qaeda is in Aden now," Mr. Bashraheel said.
In "Good Hair," Nia Long, the actress, describes the conventional wisdom that straightened hair is more desirable: "There's always a sort of pressure within the black community, like 'Oh, if you have good hair, you're prettier or better than the brown-skinned girl that wears an Afro or the dreads or the natural hairstyle.' " For some, the battle lines are drawn.
As well as bringing people together in what Keane describes as "a sort of pressure cooker environment for creative people," let's not forget the other star the data.
And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should," she said.
The Baltic Sea is a sort of experimental pressure cooker for marine life, a test for how species fare — and whether they can survive at all — in conditions the world's oceans may soon experience.
It is found that δ of the confined Xe is mainly determined by a sort of 'virtual pressure' and is not influenced by a drastic change of the free Xe density in the critical region.
Yet most athletes remain convinced that stretching helps, and recently more and more have felt a sort of social pressure to show that they are limber, in part due to the popularity of yoga.
Lewandowsky, the cognitive psychologist, argues that the idea of an actual warming pause probably first "started out in the media and on the Internet as a contrarian sort of meme". He says this language — the use of the words "pause" or "hiatus" — was later accepted by climate scientists, probably partly out of a sort of societal pressure.
Staged on a convincingly cramped U-boat set built in the Victorine Studios in Nice, "The Damned" goes even further, turning the submarine into a sort of social pressure cooker where all of the unholy alliances of the Occupation seem about to explode.
Back then it served, however briefly, as a sort of psychic pressure valve in our seemingly perfect, Lilliputian, Reagan-era suburban existence, and that well-resourced high school setting in Illinois could've doubled for any proud, genteel public school in America.
