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    1. The brain has to integrate sensory information from the inner ears, from vision, from proprioceptors (sensors in muscles, tendons and joints that tell the brain where the limbs are positioned) and from pressure sensors in the soles of the feet


    2. They mask the ability to sense accurately where the pressure is on the foot


    3. Valerian and passionflower aid relaxation and sleep, oats have a calming effect, ginseng supports the adrenals (but shouldn't be used during pregnancy or if you have high blood pressure) and Echinacea boosts immune function


    4. Silence applied some pressure with her sword on Scar’s neck


    5. As a result we have created a pressure situation for ourselves


    6. Avoid any help which results in undue pressure on your chosen way of life


    7. pressure and restore myself to some sort of equilibrium


    8. He moved her with a firm but gentle pressure out of the aisle with the still


    9. and international pressure over


    10. Maybe for a tear-jerker movie but never under pressure

    11. But she wasn't going to allow the pressure of time to change how she planned to do it


    12. ’ I said, my voice cracking as my emotions catch up now that the pressure is off to a large extent


    13. The methods used by spiritual masters so as to break their disciples' Ego are mostly red herrings, sophistry or rhetorical tricks; the listeners seldom oppose to them, because of excessive psychological pressure they are usually subjected to


    14. Unless the corpses are frozen, all the pressure of the impact builds up in this fluid wave inside a body and within a couple thousandths of a second…


    15. There is more and more pressure at work; Yota's pungent remarks about a writer of Pangaea who wasn't paid in time because I was too late in typing his entry, as she said


    16. It was nothing more than an overgrown mining tug of a bygone era with a big bad burner on it boosting an apartment building of pressure chambers into the unknown


    17. The pain was so intense and the pressure on my temple so hard that I started to retch


    18. He took a stethoscope and an old hand-cranked blood pressure band from a leather satchel


    19. Blood pressure good


    20. The pressure sensitive ones like his had little plastic bumps sticking out of the plank and the wood was well finished instead of rough-sawn

    21. These powers influence and pressure mankind into further disobedience by a rejection of God and a filling of the void with useless vanity


    22. pressure and the focus off the word love, which can be a loaded


    23. unaffected, oblivious of the pressure around her


    24. And pressure of survival


    25. It was caused by the pressure from her underwear being torn away


    26. Of course the observatory itself had to be pressurized, it was almost seven miles above the Kassikan, going outside without a pressure suit and breathing hose was impossible at that altitude, but even the inside of the observatory was at the pressure of three miles above the Kassikan, the limit of human life


    27. Even so, the fifty mile hike thru the pressure tunnel to reach the observatory was always a barrier and he spent years at a time eating dried food up there where the Kassikan's greatest telescopes had a clear view of the stars


    28. It also exerts a healthy pressure on the kidneys, thereby correcting any disorders in their function


    29. the pressure wave, flood the night


    30. It gives the maximum of bending capacity to the body and at the same time imparts a stimulating pressure on the viscera

    31. The pressure on the crown of your


    32. If you suffer from high blood pressure, palpitations, chronic constipation, chronic nasal catarrh, or weak eyes, please do not attempt the Headstand


    33. You will feel considerable pressure on your hip joints so please be careful not to strain yourself


    34. Speed isn’t a word used in Yoga, rather substitute the word pressure


    35. At the extreme points of the twisting movement you can exert a slight pressure to enhance the value of this limbering exercise


    36. By inverting the body and holding it in poised stillness, all downward pressure is relieved


    37. the pressure at the height of the lateral twist rather than on the


    38. Too fast, too crazy and blatant they were, now the pressure was on them to rush me out of here


    39. They feel this pressure because they are very concerned about choosing a gift which


    40. A welcome pressure on my arm brought me to my senses, but my guilt began to smoulder

    41. a good time so there should be no pressure to be overly cute or funny


    42. I try rubbing the back of my head hard and, for a moment, the pounding eases, only to come back with a vengeance as soon as the effect of the pressure wears off


    43. Her sad and lonely inner child wandered the dark corridors of a huge adult world, while at the same time she could feel the steam head pressure of outrage building in the magma chambers that brooded darkly in the spaces between her quiet outward persona and her molten core


    44. They all were under pressure to report something to Heymon and the captain


    45. Just when her faith was beginning to crack under the intense pressure of wanting, of needing, she was suddenly and wonderfully rewarded


    46. They simply started smoking due to peer pressure and just can't quit


    47. Another solution is to relieve the pressure you feel by focusing on a gradual process of


    48. behind a glassless bus shelter as he relieved the pressure in his


    49. The pressure had gotten to Ali


    50. where the pressure was really on, she would fail














































    1. I was living in a grotty, shared house with a load of less pressured, art students who seemed to spend most of their time partying


    2. That would only make him feel more pressured


    3. These prophets felt pressured ourselves for


    4. If you dream that someone is telling you that you are going die, then it implies that you are being pressured to make an important change or choice


    5. He didn’t like the pressured intensity of the Big Apple, he told her, the abundant


    6. For some time she had wanted to specialise in art, just leave those academic subjects her parents had pressured her to stick with to advance-higher level


    7. ' She felt pressured but tried not to show it


    8. DD Daniels had two sacks, four tackles, intercepted a pass, pressured the quarterback half a dozen times and had now taken out the QB for the season and there was still eight minutes to play in the second quarter


    9. After World War II, the UN pressured empires to set free their colonies


    10. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation pressured California's state government to change its laws

    11. Because water supplies are often under local control, and state and governments can be pressured or persuaded by corporate interests easier than at the federal level, many more local water supplies remain unsafe and harm children especially


    12. El Salvador's dictator General Humberto Romero cut off US aid rather than be pressured on human rights


    13. In Honduras, Carter successfully pressured the dictatorship into allowing elections, though the left was barred from taking part


    14. In Zimbabwe, Carter successfully pressured a racist white minority into holding free elections, ending a system as evil as apartheid


    15. The American public and antiwar activists who pressured Obama to leave, and were greatly responsible for electing him


    16. Steve, he gave me the impression that he was being pressured into this


    17. The long afternoon would soon draw to a close and Joseph felt pressured to complete his task


    18. But don’t let this cause you to feel too pressured by time: The package passes through here on the tenth of each third month, and it just passed through, so we have close to three months to prepare for the next


    19. testified that Health Canada managers had pressured them to release suspect


    20. I later deduced that Garfield had pressured Nelson into keeping me

    21. Sometimes we can be tempted to shirk our responsibilities (particularly if we are time pressured) avoiding that hard conversation which often starts with


    22. He also pressured her a great deal, to the point


    23. Until I took the oath, I felt only a burning resentment that Tithian had pressured me into giving up part of my territory


    24. The young men who had hesitated, feeling pressured by their war-chief and the gaze of the others, all now did as they were ordered, poking into their dolls and spilling the hidden pig-blood inside


    25. Lieutenant Jack Daly, the USN intelligence officer wounded in the incident and pressured not to speak to the press, later testified that he had been “betrayed and sacrificed by our government for a political agenda, one that assumed our once most feared Cold War foe has, overnight, become a friend we can trust” (Gertz, p


    26. Sometimes people pressured the government to carry out his suggestions, or often


    27. with extra condiments on it that allows their customers to spread out and not feel pressured in


    28. Marcus was not happy with Bella making Sam as strong as he was; Marcus pressured Bella, telling her that she had made a huge mistake, that his brother loved his wife and family, and because of this love could overpower anything


    29. Whatever conflict you are experiencing is coming to a point, you may be feeling pressured, you need to call on your inner strength to help you through to the final round


    30. Her mother on hearing that she and Patrick were having a physical relationship pressured them both into considering marriage

    31. Pressured thus by his ardency, she too turned keen to end his one-upmanship


    32. In spite of the new procreative multiplication, the plunams would have been still pressured for their survival for the demand for prey would have not matched with the supply of the same


    33. “That true Ma? ’Cause you don’t have to feel pressured into


    34. As the man moved obediently, the Canadian intelligence chief took the already loaded hypodermic syringe, pressured the cap to clear the needle, then calmly put it in the unsuspecting man's posterior


    35. This should not be rushed or pressured,


    36. “Were they pressured to lie?”


    37. that he had been pressured to lie to me to keep their going


    38. Refuse to be pressured into buying a ton of machines when you’re starting out


    39. When dealing with others, especially in pressured situations or


    40. humans are pressured or confined, they can miraculously

    41. This is where she was pressured


    42. Then, to our collective national shame, a number of ministers and generals pressured Prime Minister Churchill into bombing Colditz Castle, to kill Nancy and prevent her from ever revealing military secrets


    43. “Who the hell do you think you are? Of course they pressured you, a multimillion Euro commission rested on your shoulders


    44. feeling pressured to buy


    45. Notice with Mary, she was busy, she was pressured, she had lots of: I have to get this done! I've got to do this! I've got to do that! She was driven by the demands of the tasks, and there's nothing wrong with having a great list of tasks


    46. Let me just find it here - the exact word there means literally to toil, or to struggle to break through, or to feel worried or pressured, or to feel grief


    47. “Because they made me! I stepped out during the MT scan, and Marek pressured me into making the evolution diagnosis! I was not convinced! The MT alone could never have proven his claim


    48. But without my knowledge, she pressured her father for my hand


    49. Injuries are inevitable especially when a person is too pressured to accelerate the manifestations of ideal


    50. himself to that kind of scrutiny?) You are pressured to stand around to catch a bouquet at






































    1. the extreme pressures that were not accounted for


    2. As the pressures of coping with my changed mental state


    3. gave in to the pressures of an outside world


    4. Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains


    5. Old Ted had never considered a career in the media, having considerable first hand experience of the pressures and the trials of it all through his employers


    6. interest groups, nonetheless the pressures placed on any free


    7. pressures and the trials of it all through his employers


    8. There are three elevator lines surrounding the drop, but they are all expensive because of the massive pressures involved in building so tall a shaft on an elevator as these


    9. challenges and pressures of today


    10. To dream about time indicates your fears of not being able to cope with the pressures and stresses of everyday life

    11. to conserve our energy and stay calm, whatever the pressures


    12. My country buckled under pressures and allowed Americans and all sort of bigoted people into the country


    13. But this part of the world had a unique mindset, not swayed by the pressures to build high (logically so as not to impose on green areas)


    14. In the most common models, the Universe was filled homogeneously and isotropically with an incredibly high energy density, huge temperatures and pressures, and was very rapidly expanding and cooling


    15. his Dad because of the strange and consistent pressures that were


    16. But still… The internal pressures of the body and all would wreak havoc


    17. Once the Supreme Court succumbs to external (political) pressures or its own unqualified assumptions of Justice, without regard to legality, that legal body can no longer be properly considered an objective interpreter of our nation‘s laws; its critically-minded reviews and summary conclusions centering on the (penumbral) legality of questionable (historical) assumptions…


    18. But, with the husband-wife relationship being first, then the strong bond between the two of you will allow you to stand together and withstand (TOGETHER) the pressures of married life, step-parenting and parenting


    19. That was indeed what Pilar meant to me, as well: an escape from the pressures of civilization, though not of its pleasures, but very far from the “worldly noise”


    20. Since she resigned under the pressure of being governor of Alaska, one of the least populated states, how long could she handle the pressures of being president?

    21. The answer is that the pressures inside and


    22. of pressures and bonds from social forces, and


    23. Quan had shared with me the story of how they met while attending Montclair State University in 1967 and had fallen in love despite the racial and social pressures from both families


    24. In addition to the academic demands, there were social pressures that came as a shock, the unfamiliar regimentation of a school environment


    25. I feel like I might be able to understand—after all, I’ve lost two friends too, Al to the pressures of initiation and Will to the attack simulation and my own hasty actions


    26. So here are some things to consider financially whenever a guy pressures you to have sex


    27. And to tell you about the pressures! There is the customer at one end always changing his requirements, the user wanting something else and your boss always expecting you to have finished it yesterday


    28. motion and resistance against the pressures that effectively


    29. the pressures of life when they come


    30. This reminder of his personal difficulties back home while vacationing in a place where family life was still sacred and inviolate caused him some pain and evoked some nostalgic memories, but it was by far preferable to the daily pressures he had to endure at home in Brea

    31. This Hypnotherapy audio session can help you release some of the pressures of everyday life and find


    32. the pressures on the other person


    33. about (in some detail) the pressures, issues and concerns of their


    34. and priorities along with different day-to-day pressures


    35. pressures, issues and concerns of their teams


    36. Postscript February 2009: Bowing to economic pressures, UTC has just asked CCC NCMA to find somewhere else to meet


    37. The pressures of work drove thoughts of slim young


    38. ” Shaftner strolled inside and looked at the suction and discharge pressures


    39. the pressures of modern life


    40. ” Staying on course means survival, and without being organized, outside pressures and events can keep that from happening every day

    41. Adoption of the new dating has been swift, due to the pressures of impending war


    42. “No, there’s not enough magic in play here to maintain this cavern against the pressures that exist deep within Kellaran


    43. There were heated pressures within me that tremendously attempted to break out in all directions


    44. The pressures were too powerful too bear, it was excruciating! I could not endure it any longer


    45. I had to scream in order to release all the pressures from within


    46. The pressures, you understand, have been great


    47. Mental barriers, social pressures, and financial restrictions


    48. pressures and inducements which lead to the decision to migration


    49. there are subtle but real pressures to enhance income


    50. very high pressures experienced in the centre of the astral earth which













































    1. Hawaii only became a US state in 1957 because the UN was pressuring empires to set their colonies free


    2. Gore in fact faced protests by AIDS activists over his lobbying for drug companies, pressuring South Africa's government to not allow cheaper generic anti-AIDS drugs


    3. It could be a gambling debt that he had been pressuring him about


    4. “It depends on if we can get away with it or if the woman in question will dump us for pressuring for sex or dump us for not pressuring at all


    5. The older children started pressuring Roger to take Chad and Manrique away from their mother


    6. In the end, he even started pressuring her to pray


    7. Donna was pressuring her to spend the entire season in Atlanta


    8. And, when dealing with his kind, pressuring him for more answers would only result in fewer


    9. Sarai is pressuring him to sent Hagar and her son away


    10. Jersey was pressuring me to wrap the case up quickly or hand it off to the FBI and take our lumps

    11. That’s Not Cool is a national public education campaign that uses digital examples of controlling, pressuring, and threatening behavior to raise awareness about and prevent teen dating abuse


    12. I didn’t want Marina pressuring Angela – or you guys either


    13. “That’s because they never had anyone pressuring them to do it,” said Joey


    14. We hadn't been dating long when she started pressuring me to get married and start a family right away


    15. "It would be an issue for sure! He dumped his last serious girlfriend because she was pressuring him to have kids


    16. “What! Their family and relatives are pressuring another family?”


    17. Thoughts that come from demons, generally are very demanding and pressuring, and they're often evil in intent; but the thoughts that come from God are usually gentle, and life-giving, and quite easily stopped


    18. Delay always has a way of pressuring us, so there's a due time


    19. They could involve time as a means of pressuring the other party


    20. ”* is what the field is pressuring us towards as a universal feeling (*NuLuv at the tweetfest memeathon, Clikque the Mind Over)

    21. pressuring the agencies to wrap up their case and bring Mulkousky in on arms smuggling and


    22. Someone in CSIS is pressuring to close


    23. "I haven't been pressuring her, Janet


    24. “Well, he’s still pressuring me, but I did a lot of thinking on my way back and have decided to just end it with him


    25. “As long as we keep pressuring, prevent the point blank shots, and stay out of the penalty


    26. into edging and pressuring off that uphill outside ski


    27. "Gigi, I'll admit that Cole was pressuring me into smoking but that's not the reason I did it


    28. So we went to her house and she was pressuring me into smoking so I-


    29. "He keeps pressuring me into having sex with him so I had to break up with him


    30. It seemed as if Helmi was pressuring her to marry sooner than she would have liked

    31. It is a direct manipulation by the secret invisible undead of the first human inhabitants of America who have been pressuring living modern humans to regress their modern society back to the oldest stupidest most obsolete form of agricultural religion… the worshipping of a fucking plant


    32. And since he now had a clear goal, his parents stopped pressuring him to


    33. It intensified, and turned into a feeling of being inside himself, a pressuring, claustrophobic sensation that made a ringing noise in his ears


    34. There was only the pressuring, choking, ominous feeling that they were doing something very sinister


    35. They’re pressuring me to move back to New York but I really don’t want to,” she confessed


    36. He wanted to make sure no one was pressuring him


    37. They excelled at sitting back but staying close, rowing hard but slow, pressuring their opponents into raising their stroke rates too high too soon, and then, when the other crews were good and fagged out, suddenly sprinting past them, catching them unawares, unnerving them, mowing them down


    38. He only signed her because Joe Schenck, Johnny Hyde, and so many others kept pressuring him about it


    39. 00, pressuring the short calls, but eventually settle back below $15


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    Synonyms for "pressure"

    press pressing pressure pressure sensation air pressure atmospheric pressure force per unit area pressure level imperativeness insistence insistency coerce force hale squeeze blackjack blackmail compel constrain urge tension burden urgency obligation demand coercion repression

    "pressure" definitions

    the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)


    a force that compels


    the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure


    the state of demanding notice or attention


    the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin


    an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress


    the pressure exerted by the atmosphere


    to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means


    exert pressure on someone through threats