"cross pressure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a situation in which there are conflicting pressures or influences. For example, "The decision-maker experienced cross pressure from both sides of the issue."
The White House has acknowledged this tension as "cross pressures" in the debate.
A central goal of the anti-Romney commercials is to cross-pressure these whites.
However he noted that there are "a lot of cross-pressures here in this situation".
They're balancing so many cross-pressures, they often come up with technocratic Rube Goldberg schemes that alter incentives in lots of medium and small ways.
Getting there will be ugly, and the measure will seem to die more than once as it battles these cross-pressures.
But in a display of the cross-pressures Mr. Bush faces, Jack F. Kemp, the prominent conservative, argued that the president has tried to reach to the middle, and that the education bill that passed the House this week was a prime example.
People like Mr Chafee who experience the cross-pressures of their conservative parties and their liberal electorates have proved to be some of the great bridge-builders in a divided Congress.
It has created political cross-pressures on Republicans, who are trying to deal with voters who see the influx of immigrants as a threat to their safety, cultural identity and economic well-being; and Democrats, who have benefited in the past decade from the perception among many legal immigrants that Republicans are anti-immigration.
And Norway's in-between course, previously inspired by Sweden, now leaning towards Denmark, provides an interesting example of normative cross-pressure – between concerns with cultural cohesion and pessimism concerning the will and ability of Muslim immigrants to adapt (as in Denmark), and a strong ideology of human rights and equal treatment (as in Sweden) (Brochmann & Hagelund, 2012).
This argument is based on the logic of the pluralism model indicating a cross-pressuring and self-correcting effect of a multipolar system, in which the increasing range of possible interactions increases the flexibility of the actor's behaviour through a greater number of available choices and, by doing so, constrains the probability of violent conflict escalation.
