7 sentences with 'pressures'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pressures and other words derived from it.
• « Herodotus sought to explain human actions in terms of how people tend to react to the political and social pressures they experience. He applied his theory to various events of the ancient past, such as the Trojan War, as well as those of Greece's recent past. »
• « In short, the Ottoman Empire was beset by external pressures in the form of growing European military power and European intrusion into its economy. It also suffered from internal problems, notably the corruption of the janissaries and the intransigence of reactionaries such as Abdulhamit. »
• « He was a good man, well respected, a model father, and a manager of his company. But the pressures of his job were enormous, and over the years he fell into alcoholism. »
• « Simply put, the disaster of a volcanic explosion occurs when pressures build up and temperatures exceed certain limits. »
• « But lava does not always erupt: sometimes, the volatiles are subjected to such enormous pressures that they cause an explosion within the lava itself, fragmenting it and expelling it mixed with the gases. There is no what specialists refer to as a "lava phase". »
• « Perhaps the most ruthless sleep thief, in the eyes of experts, is the complexity of everyday life. Whenever the pressures of work, family, friends and community intensify, many people consider sleep to be the least indispensable factor in their agenda. »