"We are all crumbling under the pressures of workload," she says with a sigh.
Prato's business model was falling apart under the pressures of globalization.
Under the pressures of World War II, the major powers used millions of submachine guns.
Under the pressures of modernity, war and authoritarian rule, it has fragmented.
Under the pressures of the global economic downturn, relations between the United States and China are undergoing some fundamental changes.
Patchett's novels typically derive their narrative energy from unlikely romantic entanglements that slowly unravel under the pressures of life.
A group of affluent and articulate teenagers under the pressures of adolescence battle to get into Oxbridge.
Even under the pressures of investigations and lawsuits, she has tried to retain a positive outlook, said friends.
As he experienced it, he grotesquely betrayed that honor when, under the pressures of torture, he broke.
The Carolingian protectorate of local order collapsed under the pressures of external invasions and internal usurpations of power.
And some worried about the long-term effects on the subjects, who often acted, under the pressures of the experimental paradigm, in ways they later found abhorrent.
