3) Fresh off a career worst 0-26 slump, Albert Pujols finally rewarded the patience of Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who withstood mounting pressure to sit the aging slugger for a day or two, or at least to drop him in the lineup.
And the girls who visit are under no social pressure to sit quietly, and watch.
"There's a lot of social pressure to sit at your desk all day," says Deborah Quilter, the author of two books on repetitive strain injury.
Do I really need to feel the pressure to sit in front of the mirror and put on a bunch of makeup and wear a whole bunch of jewelry, makeup and perfume just to go to the grocery store?
At best, they can pressure India to sit at the table and to treat its own Kashmiri citizens decently enough so that General Musharraf can claim to have protected their rights.
Having removed the label of meditation and the pressures -- to sit still, concentrate, pay attention to my breathing, my posture, what I'm thinking about, why I'm thinking about it, how I'm going to meditate, and on and on -- and experience my thoughts freely, without restrictions, meditating became easier.
Today, posters attribute the so-called obesity epidemic to laziness, vice and bad habits, rather than, say, the ubiquitousness of cheap junk food, particularly in poorer communities, or the mounting pressure on employees to sit at desks for ever longer workdays, or the slapdash construction of car-based communities without so much as a Potemkin sidewalk on which to take a salubrious stroll.
In spite of the pressure, you have "to sit back, to look at all the information available, process it, and talk to other people".
This summer, two weeks before Chelsea Clinton's wedding, the secretary of state — who is the most highly regarded political figure in the Bloomberg poll — made sure to take time out from a high-pressure Pakistan visit to sit down with Andrea Mitchell and discuss the joys of being the mother of the bride.
As the pressure mounted, Brennan chose to sit out a game.
Then maybe they'd put... pressure on the president to sit down and talk with us and help us work this out and avoid it," McCain said.
