Sentence examples for pressure to kill from inspiring English sources

The agency — the South Florida Water Management District — had been under mounting pressure to kill the deal.

Girumuhatse announced that one reason he had been under pressure to kill during the genocide was that he had been told to kill his wife, a Tutsi.

"There was a lot of internal pressure to kill it, but I knew Mayhem was the right idea at the right time," she confided.

The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, is threatening to oppose it and is under strong internal pressure to kill the plebiscite to force the issue back into the parliament.

Erica Jong's 15th anniversary edition of Fear of Flying attributed to the legacy of Flaubert's novel a "considerable pressure" to kill off her adulterous heroine.

The president faces intense pressure to kill the project from environmental advocates, who argue that development of the carbon-intensive tar sands will be a catastrophe for the global climate.

Critics of such laws feared that poor people would be pressured to kill themselves because they or their families could not afford end-of-life care.

The suicide-seeker declares he is not being pressured to kill himself; two doctors agree, and testify that he is terminally ill and of sound mind.

The interesting thing is that although we know what Yassen will become, we continue to root for him as he fights the intense external and internal pressures to kill.

In 2012, the actor Nick Santino committed suicide, on his birthday, after being pressured to kill his pet dog.

The Crédit Municipal still has a 19th century mattress-delousing machine, a giant cylindrical contraption the pumped high pressure steam to kill any bedbugs.