When a pilot ascends to high altitudes, the pressures exerted upon the body are reduced.
The check exerted upon insect pests by other insects is an important mechanism of natural control of populations.
The stimulation exerted upon the nipples during suckling leads to the transmission of nerve impulses to the hypothalamus.
This is a deeply felt meditation on the dual influences Iyer's father and Graham Greene exerted upon him.
"Strong" poets, he argued, are able to overcome this anxiety to produce original work in spite of the influence exerted upon them.
'We are lucky because our marriage is very strong,' she says, 'but other couples have broken up because of the pressures exerted upon them by their financial problems.
In many instances it is the pressure of natural gas exerted upon the subterranean oil reservoir that provides the drive to force oil up to the surface.
But making sex-selective abortion a serious crime – meaning that vulnerable women will be arrested, imprisoned and ultimately blamed for the pressures exerted upon them – is, at best, a bad idea.
For we live in a world where, for women, syntax itself can be threatening; so-called 'compliments' a nod to the power that could be exerted upon us, physically, by men if they so chose to do so.
They also regulate molting and the associated metabolic functions by actions exerted upon the so-called Y-organ in the head; this organ so closely resembles the thoracic gland of insects that the two may share a common ancestry.
A huge ceremonial structure, it borrowed features from the Acropolis, in tribute to the long fascination ancient Greece exerted upon the German imagination (a fascination that in no way extends to the current German-Greek relationship).
