A team history of ruthlessness and inhuman pressure on the athletes.
A job on that show that I would not have wanted at (almost) any price was the one held by the poor fellow who, watching from the control booth, had to make — under inhuman pressure — the instant on-air decisions about what answers and clues to accept or reject.
Many families make this choice--I've met few parents who wouldn't sacrifice almost anything for their kids--but asking families to yield this pound of flesh isn't just an economic matter: it places an inhuman pressure on kids and changes the nature of the college experience.
I go to visit Geraldine Ferraro to hear her story of the almost inhuman pressures that are put on any presidential contender - particularly, and pertinently to the election this year, if she is a woman.
One felt, in reading "The Silent World," by the deep-sea diver Cousteau, that there, rather unexpectedly, was to be seen something of true French greatness: good sense combined with daring, the capacity under all conditions in this case, the resistance to inhuman pressures, breathing from a tank at the bottom of the sea for realistic and accurate observation, for exercising a cool intelligence.
His book explores the crushing weight of trying to grow up in a place so threatening that you barely expect to survive to adulthood, the confusion of becoming a black man when the templates are "Barack Obama" and "Akai Gurley," and the inhuman pressures faced by black people fighting to find their own identities in a sea of hostile stereotypes.
The pressure was inhuman.
Indian children are succumbing to the pressures of conforming to obsolete and inhuman models of discipline, education and overall behavior.
Of late, pre-teen suicides, brought on by unrealistic expectations of parents and the school system, have been on the rise.{{ Indian children are succumbing to the pressures of conforming to obsolete and inhuman models of discipline, education and overall behavior.
SYDNEY, Australia Australiaia's indefinite detention of 46 recognized refugees amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, a United Nations committee said Thursday, applying more international pressure on the government's toughened policies toward asylum seekers.
It was the pressure of the Indian intelligentsia that led the British to implement sati reforms, aimed at ending the inhuman practice of a widow ('sati') immolating herself on her husband's pyre.
