'exert negative pressure' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express how something has a negative affect on something else. For example: "The increase in taxes caused businesses to exert negative pressure on their employees to keep costs low."
Moody's said that although Britain was not in the euro zone the crisis was "exerting negative pressure" on its economy, and that the government may thus find it a "challenge" to reduce Britain's heavy public debt.
Also, by creating constraints to ensure compliance with orders, the diagnostic use of PMS exerts negative pressure on these capabilities.
The tip of the catheter exerts negative pressure only within a small area of the proximal airway, due, at least in part, to lack of proximal sealing.
China, on the other hand, may be exerting negative pressure on a deal because of our posture on Chinese Trade-Hope Not!
Marangoni forces (F Mar ) that develop along this interface generate a flow of the electrolyte away from the channel entrance, and exert negative displacement pressure on the liquid metal, pulling it flush across the channel entrance.
It must, in other words, exert a negative pressure.Divide dark energy's pressure (negative) by its energy density (positive) and you get something cosmologists label "w".
Increased agricultural production exerts a negative pressure on the environment, particularly regarding the use of agricultural waste.
He concludes that media pessimism exerts negative price pressure on the daily returns of the Dow Jones Stock Index.
ACTH stimulates the secretion of glucocorticoids from the adrenals into the circulation to mobilize energy stores, maintain blood pressure, and exert negative feedback at the HPA brain and pituitary sites (for review, see [ 9]).
