Admission to Japan's top universities, seen as a prerequisite for a good job in government or business, is determined by applicants' performance on grueling entrance examinations, and young people face enormous pressure preparing for them.
The intelligence services have been placed under "unprecedented pressure" preparing for the Olympics, warn MPs.
However, some of this care is poor quality such as providing excessive fundal pressure, preparing instruments by swilling in water.
In between sports practices and games, music lessons, volunteer work, and of course heaps of school projects and homework, families are pressured preparing children for college.
Many struggle as state funding flattens and there is increasing pressure to prepare students for a tight job market.
Now, detainees are under pressure to prepare a compelling case quickly -- and lawyers say this is a difficult task for people behind bars.
Critics were skeptical, saying that classroom teachers who complain about unrelenting pressure to prepare for standardized tests were unlikely to feel much relief.
Practicing under even mild pressure helps prepare you for the more intense version of a championship-winning or match-winning putt.
At some point in your past, all of you have no doubt been under pressure to prepare a dinner party in which everything is really special and "just so".
At a time when we're seeing real student progress and pressure to prepare students even better, now is not the time to backpedal and conclude that an eighth-grade education is good enough.
But given the high expectations from member countries, the myriad human rights groups and the court's 18 judges, who are eager to take on cases, he is under pressure to prepare his first prosecution.
