"You could never tell how a man was going to behave under pressure," Eriksson said.
Physicists do not need to know the behavior of every molecule to predict how a gas will behave under pressure.
Yet by doing so, we ignore the real test cases: how we behave under pressure; how nice we are to people we don't like; how we deal with other people who seem determined not to live up to our unrealistic expectations.
But his intimate understanding of his characters and his authoritative knowledge of the legal world inject the narrative with emotional fuel, creating suspense that has less to do with the actual twists and turns of the plot than with our interest in what will happen to these people and how they will behave under pressure.
Again and again, those close to him say, Mr. Obama is moved by the grace with which other blacks who broke the color barrier behaved under pressure.
The series of videos below offers a fascinating insight into how this generation of "starchitects" behaves under pressure, as they each pitch to win one of the most high-profile competitions in recent years: a new tower for L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York.
To know a thing therefore means to know from experience how it behaves under pressure and impact, in being bent and being broken, when heated and when cooled, etc., i.e., to know its behavior in the nexus of its causalities: which states does the thing actually attain and how does it remain the same throughout these states" (Ideas II, §15, [45]).
"His book promises to take us inside those extraordinary moments in our history, showing us how these leaders have behaved under pressure," Flatiron's publisher and president Bob Miller wrote in a statement.
And, by compressing materials with diamond anvils or explosive gas guns, they've mapped out the "equations of state" for many materials that describe how they behave under high pressure.
"All the characters in Raven's novels can be guaranteed to behave badly under pressure; most of them are vile without any pressure at all," The Daily Telegraph said in its obituary.
Some of the things you might concentrate on include the other person's appearance (for example, how they dress, style their hair, carry themselves, etc); their manner of speaking and interacting (intonation, pauses, listening skills, responding with humor, etc).; typical ways they behave both under pressure (calm, reflectively, etc).
