'inflict pressure' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe the act of making a situation more difficult for someone, either intentionally or unintentionally. For example: "The deadline for the project was quickly approaching, and it began to inflict pressure on the team to finish on time."
Muscle contractures around the joint and soft tissue pathology hinder reduction and prevent normal development of the femoral head by inflicting pressure [ 4].
Many diplomats believe that the real reason East Germany encourages the flow of asylum seekers is to inflict refugee pressure on West Berlin and West Germany.
The data from the current study are consistent with this hypothesis, and indicate that small placentas derived from scNT-MUC inflict chronic pressure on the developing fetus, resulting in compromised organ development.
You should be leaning on your heel a comfortable amount; not too much to inflict painful pressure on your legs.
On Friday that meant catching passes atop a stationary bike and running on an antigravity treadmill, which allows him to run without inflicting pressure on his foot.
While doctors admittedly tend to use the word "pressure" far too loosely, trilling "just a little pressure now" before various awful procedures like sucking bone marrow from a hip or fixing a dislocated shoulder, taking someone's blood pressure is literally just that: inflicting some pressure.
He credited part of his swift recovery to the AlterG antigravity treadmill, a machine that allowed him to walk and run without inflicting severe pressure on the bone as it healed.
Set in a factory where female workers are manufacturing optics for bomb sights, the film resembles one of the more demented artifacts of China's Cultural Revolution with its hordes of happy workers joyfully inflicting social pressure on one another to increase production.
Mao's team used a diamond anvil that can inflict the highest pressures ever created in a laboratory.
One is that climate change may be not steady but abrupt; the other is that the pressures we inflict on the climate may trigger wholly unexpected developments from feedback effects.
