"bending to pressure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can typically use it to describe a situation in which someone capitulates in the face of attempts to influence them. For example: "The politician initially held firm on her position, but eventually she was forced to bend to pressure from her colleagues and change her stance."
Also, China's leaders generally don't like to appear to be bending to pressure from the West.
Why are doctors bending to "pressure" from patients on this one health care issue and not yielding in many other circumstances?
If it appeared that the Justices were bending to pressure, the plurality opinion argued, the public's view of the legitimacy of the Court itself would be damaged.
Mr. Wang, possibly in retaliation for Mr. Bo bending to pressure from the inspection, twice filed complaints to Discipline Inspection against Mr. Bo.
Over the last two years, bending to pressure from consumer groups and its own inspector general, the Agriculture Department had finally tested 650,000 animals instead of a token handful.
Bending to pressure from consumer advocates and its own inspector general, who had called inspections seriously flawed, the Agriculture Department expanded testing for the disease in 2005 to about one of every 90 cows slaughtered.
However, some commanders said, officers sometimes bend to pressure by supervisors to eschew report-taking.
Likewise, the United States and our allies are open to dialogue, but we will not bend to pressure or provocation".
Of suggestions that he had bent to pressure from the right, a spokeswoman for Mr. Snyder said: "The governor doesn't make decisions based on 'pressure.' Period".
As Alastair Campbell shrewdly noted in a speech to the nurses' spring conference in Liverpool, the coalition isn't tough like Margaret Thatcher in her prime – it bends to pressure.
Mr. Monegan has said that he believes he lost his job because he would not bend to pressure to dismiss Trooper Wooten.
