6 sentences with 'pressured'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pressured and other words derived from it.
• « In addition to attacks by groups such as the Vikings, the main political problem of the Middle Ages was that the entire feudal system was based on violence: minor lords often had no livelihood outside of war, and pressured their own lords to initiate raids on nearby lands. »
• « Nevertheless, women were generally expected to defer to men in almost all cases, and even widows were often pressured to remarry (and in the process surrender much of their former independence). »
• « However, the raw materials of the Second Industrial Revolution were largely located outside the older areas under European control, which meant that European commercial interests pressured their respective governments to seize as much overseas territory as possible. »
• « In 1964, pressured by Soviet and Chinese advisors and with the US intensifying pressure on the Viet Cong ("Vietnamese communists"), the Viet Minh leadership launched a full-scale invasion in the name of Vietnamese unification. »
• « Occasionally, this magma is pressured by these movements and the masses of energy they generate. It then tries to rise and bursts out through the rocks. A new volcano will appear, or one that has been dormant for years or centuries will "wake up". »
• « The United States had long argued that the Rio Grande was the border between Mexico and the United States, and at the end of the Texas War of Independence had pressured Santa Anna to acquiesce. »