Sentence examples for appalling pressure from inspiring English sources

It's understandable that we can forget it among the appalling pressure of targets and service delivery.

She has been subjected to appalling pressure from her own community for an entirely innocent passing remark made at a literary event".

Both that marriage, and the second to his nurse, Elaine Mason (a "passionate and tempestuous" relationship) failed under the appalling pressure of his illness.

For Yongle's monumental projects – the building of Beijing, the repair of the Grand Canal, the campaigns into the Mongol steppe and Zhenghe's fleets of ships – put the general populace under appalling pressure to produce exceptional levies of taxation and labour.

Somehow, despite the appalling pressure his opening line has put him under, Garner is able to relax and ease the knot of knowing too much and caring too much.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek, lifelong Cardiff fan and former Labour leader Lord Kinnock criticised Tan for putting "appalling pressures" on Mackay and urged him not to sack the Scot.

Seeing them burst open – from what we now know to have been improvised devices made, prosaically but with appalling cruelty, from pressure cookers filled with ball bearings – seemed to tear at the heart of American surety.

The emphasis shouldn't be on knocking nurses in general, it has more to do with appalling NHS management; the pressure of targets and a nursing workforce overworked and overwhelmed by NHS bureaucracy.

His strategy has seen shares falling by 65% over the past year and profits for 2001 predicted at around SFr100m ($59m), compared with SFr924m the year before.A string of appalling results and shareholder pressure finally put paid to the tenure of Rolf Hüppi as chief executive of Zurich Financial Services.

Under pressure from appalling polling figures which showed his Lib Dem party fourth nationwide behind Ukip, Clegg's commitment to protect the poorest in society from "wild Tory demands" could not prevent a surprisingly pointed attack from his own side on the first full day of his party's conference in Brighton.

Ellen Shade is the agonised Katya, slowly losing her reason under pressure from her appalling mother-in-law, Kabanicha, played by the great Czech mezzo Eva Randová.