Words that sound alarming abound in the geological literature: 'supercritical' for deep gas like CO2 when it becomes pressurised; 'overpressured' for layers of rock that have higher pressure than their depth would suggest; 'blowout' for when a well leaks gas uncontrollably.
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.
Ice skating aficionados may recall that Sikharulidze and Berezhnaya's victory in Salt Lake was tainted when a French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, admitted she had been pressurised to vote for the Russian couple instead of the widely favoured Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.
The previous change, an enforced one, was in July when Alun Davies was sacked as natural resources minister for pressurising civil servants for private information on opposition AMs.
This instrument is foremost a market based pressurising medium for companies continuing their production on the basis of slavery work.
"Pressurised workers may reach for cigarettes, snack foods and alcohol to help make themselves feel better," said Davison.
At around this time, the Central Electricity Generating Board was proposing to utilise the Westinghouse pressurised water reactor (PWR) for future generations.
Silicon Valley is known for being pressurised, highly competitive and stuffed with ambitious people who push themselves – and sometimes fail to admit they are struggling to cope.
If the reactor loses pressure because of a loss of coolant, for example, pressurised tanks deliver water to the core, since the pressure in the tanks is higher than that in the core, explains Howard Bruschi, who has worked for Westinghouse since the 1960s and is now a consultant to the company.
