Sentence examples for silent pressure from inspiring English sources

There's all that nakedness in front of strangers, the silent pressure to attain tranquillity, and, let's be honest, the nagging tension about how much the whole thing is costing.

Josh Childress, who has played eight seasons in the N.B.A. and spent part of last season with the Texas Legends of the N.B.A. Development League, said there was "definitely a silent pressure" from teams and sponsors for athletes to censor themselves.

Adding to the silent pressure of that memory, the Russian report said, was the presence of the head of the Polish air force, General Andrzej Blasik, who walked into the cockpit two minutes before the Smolensk crash appearing to be slightly inebriated.

They created a program called "courtwatchers," where women would pack the audience during rape trials, putting silent pressure on judges and lawyers to recognize the gravity of the charge.

In many families, churches, and social institutions, there is a silent pressure to agree, to continue the norm, to make things easier for other people, to not ask for exceptions, to not be difficult.

It's an unfortunate reality that women are under silent pressure to be as sexy as possible whether it be Halloween, nights at South Beach or the Grove but if they are assaulted it's perceived to be their own fault for "provoking them".

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Among the best in prose are Selma Dabbagh, who makes nail-biting narrative out of the plight of the Palestinians, and Sue Rullière, whose humid still life conveys silent psycho-sexual pressures in a rural domestic scene between a French mother and her daughter.

If construction in E1 would be "the fatal heart attack" of the two-state solution, as Mr. Seidemann describes it, Givat Hamatos is its "silent killer, high blood pressure".

However, there is increasing evidence for selection pressure at silent sites due to constraints of RNA splicing.

So if seeing red-faced, sweaty, stressed friends or strangers makes you in any way smug about the state of your own arteries, just remember they don't call high blood pressure the silent killer for nothing.