"pressurised" is a correct term used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation where somebody or something is under pressure. For example, "The employees felt pressurised to meet their deadlines."
They are being bullied, they are being intimidated, they are being pressurised not to support me, so we don't have a contest".
The inspectors also said Britain's own checks at abattoirs were unsatisfactory and there was a risk that UK government inspectors were being pressurised by their managers and owners to give higher hygiene scores than were warranted.
Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, defended the changes, saying pupils were no longer taking courses that offered little value, and were not being pressurised into entering for exams before they were ready.
The Shell boss's comments are likely to be welcomed by those political leaders who feel pressurised by environmentalists over the green agenda but they are likely to lead to criticism over the company's own record, particularly with regard to its drilling in the Arctic and investments into carbon-heavy tar sands of Canada.
"Their weeks are very pressurised, so top sportspeople are extremely organised, disciplined and efficient with their time, which are useful skills in the academic side of their lives," says Stephen Baddeley, director of sport at the University of Bath, which had 11 current students at the Games.
Holey grail Reprints Related items A survey of wine: The globe in a glassDec 16th 1999 Plastic wine stoppers: A corking rowJun 3rd 1999If suitably heated and pressurised, CO2 becomes "supercritical".
Its pressurised heavy-water reactors, known as CANDU, are similar to ordinary pressurised-water reactors (or light-water reactors, as they are sometimes known) but they contain water in which the hydrogen atoms have been replaced by their heavier cousins, deuterium.
Their solution is to mop up the radioactivity in the water with plastic.In a pressurised-water reactor, hot water circulates at high pressure through steel piping, dissolving metal ions from the walls of the pipes.
One big source of low-level waste is the water used to cool the core in the most common form of reactor, the pressurised-water reactor.
Nuclear power is in the midst of a global comeback, and Areva NP's new design, the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), is leading the field against competing blueprints from American and Japanese rivals.Being a minority shareholder, the German firm complained, "considerably limits the entrepreneurial manoeuverability of Siemens within the joint venture".
Finland and France, which produces more of its electricity in nuclear plants than any other big country, each have under construction a plant of the European Pressurised Reactor EPRR) design developed by AREVA, a French industrial group.
