Pressurised

Could I ask if you've answered the query about being "pressurised" to do something. ❋ DC (2010)

The premier repeated Mamase's assertion that the government would not be "pressurised" by lobby groups into "willy-nilly" expanding its existing Nevirapine programme. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Just cos a cabin is "pressurised" doesn't mean it's the same pressure you get at gorund level. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the Left parties, CPI, also said that the PM's statement that he would have quit if he had failed to get the Indo-US nuclear deal passed, showed that he had made it his "personal agenda" and had "pressurised" the Congress and the allies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What it told me is that 10 years of age is too young to be pressurised by being on such a show. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

I want her to enjoy this part of her middle childhood, not feel pressurised to wear a push-up bra, slap makeup on skin that does it need it and stagger around in high heels and damage her growing feet. ❋ Katharine Quarmby (2011)

Last weekend Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce, from whom he separated last year, claimed that the Liberal Democrat cabinet minister "pressurised people" to take on his penalty points to avoid a driving ban. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A week ago Pryce said she was "aware that he pressurised people to take his driving licence penalty points." ❋ Unknown (2011)

On Wednesday night the disciplinary panel under Judge Sean Enright said: Referees strive to do the best they can in a highly pressurised environment. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"You are pressurised to do due diligence in four weeks." ❋ By Shraddha Nair (2011)

Make no mistake, he will play a big role in the American effort, and not just because his long, straight hitting seems perfect for Celtic Manor, but also because his temperament is ideally suited to golf's most pressurised occasion. ❋ Lawrence Donegan (2010)

In an act of what has been seen as startling corporate bullying, Warner Bros has pressurised the government of New Zealand to change its employment law and provide a package of $25m (£16m) tax breaks to keep filming its upcoming $500m Hobbit movies in the country. ❋ Andrew Clark (2010)

Being at a new university felt less pressurised than studying at one of the "elite" universities, where I'd have had the burden of everyone expecting me to do amazingly well all the time. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Women are going to be pressurised into making informal arrangements which will place them at risk of harm. ❋ Unknown (2011)

• They were making the decision voluntarily and with no sense of being pressurised by others or feeling "a burden". ❋ Unknown (2012)

So police officers are being compromised by being pressurised to lie and then being pressurised to drive in a way that could result in death or bodily injury to themselves or to innocent members of public who you have sworn to protect all so that someone snotty superintendent can get a bung from the Home Office ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Members felt he was being pressurised when he needed space to think. ❋ Patrick Wintour (2010)

This version was partly supported by a statement that Knox made four days after the discovery of the crime following a lengthy overnight interrogation in which, she told the court , "I wasn't just stressed and pressurised; I was manipulated." ❋ Unknown (2011)