Sentence examples for pressure for something from inspiring English sources

"Our small nation withstood a lot of pressure for something that is our right".

This week's subway snarl-up may increase the pressure for something more to be done.

It's a lot of pressure for something that you don't care about in the grand scheme of life.

"What the heck," said Carnesecca, 86 and unwilling to challenge his blood pressure for something that happened more than a quarter-century ago.

The pressure for something to be done about the legal morass around abortion is greater than it has ever been – not only domestically but this time, it seems, from across the world.

While dead bodies were shown piling up in the streets, Rwanda was described as suffering from a centuries-old history of tribal warfare; the failure to properly report that this was a political crisis and that genocide was taking place – and thereby generate public pressure for something to be done to stop it – had contributed to international indifference and inaction.

Once that happens, "you can't later come back and say, 'I want to use this piece to pressure you for something else.'".

This desire for, this pressure for independence is something to which both the Soviet Union and ourselves are subject.

I ask if he feels any pressure creating something for the first time in London.

"Now that Obama has raised the pressure on the Israelis when it comes to settlement freeze, it's time to start raising pressure on the Arab states for something in return," said Ghaith al-Omari, a former negotiator for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president.

Under pressure, you couldn't ask for something better, and curiously, it was a relief to have it". As she also reminds me, Mayhem is full of portents, most memorably an adder that crosses her path not once, but twice.