Sentence examples for harder pressure from inspiring English sources

The pen pressure has been chosen because of its analogy with vocal effort: a harder pressure corresponds to a higher vocal effort and a louder sound.

Squeeze both legs on your horse, with a little bit harder pressure on the inside leg (if you squeeze the outside leg harder, this is the aid for canter).

He pursues his objectives on many levels, including hard pressure for remedial legislation.

During the election campaign, Cameron was under pressure to run the issue hard; pressure he by and large resisted.

Though the West had deep security and economic ties in the Gulf states, it chose not to exert hard pressure on monarchies there to move toward democracy.

During the past year, civic activists have been jailed and prosecuted, and in the past two or three months nonprofits that receive foreign funding have come under hard pressure.

Try the almost chiropractic Lao massage, in which a masseuse applies hard pressure all over your body with her thumbs and palms.

"It would be hard pressure to shrug off if it's from someone that high up," he said, referring to Mr. Weill.

He said in a telephone interview that while Mr. Sharon was under "very hard pressure" from within his own government to re-occupy territory ceded to the Palestinians, he had no intention of doing so.

MY MASSAGE THERAPIST, Natalia, might have been up on assault charges if I hadn't given her permission to apply "hard" pressure during my massage at MacArthur Place, California wine country's hippest new inn and spa.

It's hard pressure, being a comedian -- and sometimes, the cracks show.