What is "pressured"

Usage examples of "pressured".

Kennedy pressured Barnett to get his police into action against the snipers.

Rebecca Eames contended that Abigail Hobbs and Mary Lacey had pressured her into a confession.

Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have repeatedly pressured Syria to stop the smuggling or bring it under the U.

Justice William Rehnquist, the fourth and most virulently conservative of the four Nixon appointees, has been either pressured or cajoled by the others to remove himself from the case because of his previous association with the Nixon administration.

I think housemothers would be especially pressured not to entertain aging bearded motorcyclists who are adorned with a significant number of tattoos.

A first step toward reversing this downward trend would be an official, public acknowledgment by NSA seniors that employees were pressured to provide only positive feedback regarding Future Day and that the proclaimed benefits of Future Day have been grossly overhyped.

In any case, her husband seemed utterly unbothered by the tensions and doubts that pressured other members of his profession.

If he feels coerced or pressured too hard, he may wish to look elsewhere for his bride.

If target is pressured (as manned ships are and most missiles), all it takes is to burn a hole, depressure it.

Grain load had been dried and depressured as usual before loading but that cell was supposed to be pressured?

So that all these relations are twisted, pressured to the bursting point.

So as communism disappeared and the threat of total, global holocaust evaporated and just left us with everything else to worry about, and as those enticing Eastern markets opened juicily up and the old ethnic hatreds pressured into solution under the Comrades bubbled and frothed themselves up to full bursting pressure .

For the more conventional medical practitioner, though, this was bad for business, so French physicians pressured King Louis XVI to crack down.

The heirs apparent now wanted no part of the succession, nor did they want the Hold in contention, so they pressured Meron to name a successor, who would then try to placate the Benden 'weyrleaders.

The heirs apparent now wanted no part of the succession, nor did they want the Hold in contention, so they pressured Meron to name a successor, who would then try to placate the Benden weyrleaders.