4036 examples of pressure in sentences

And no wonder; for that single explosion relieved an interior pressure upon the crust of the earth, which had agitated sea and land from the Azores to the West Indian islands, the coasts of Venezuela, the Cordillera of New Grenada, and the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio.

Though pressure in this respect has been much relieved of late, there are doubtless many who do so still.

Pressure of the War 25.

" But not once did she turn her eyes to the woman whom she forgave, and the hand that the widow held gave back no answering pressure.

He knew the Kureisch had instituted a policy of alliance with the surrounding tribes, and that now their plan would be to crush him by a ceaseless pressure from the east, united to the inevitable disaffection within the city as its inhabitants witnessed the decline of their leader's power.

I fear that very soon I shall be unable to resist the pressure exercised upon me and that I shall be forced to take measures which will lead to war.

We need Your strong pressure upon Austria so that an understanding can be arrived at with us.

I replied that I did not wish to say that, or to use anything that was like a threat or an attempt to apply pressure by saying that, if things became worse, we should intervene.

Disappointment, therefore, brought the ready tear to her eye; and solicitous affection, if possible, removed the pressure which had caused it.

The pressure of these, too, is the more severely felt because they have fallen upon us at a moment when the national prosperity being at a height not before attained, the contrast resulting from the change has been rendered the more striking.

It was followed by signal proofs that the national spirit rises according to the pressure on it.

When the wedge thus formed being driven in, at first rendered the line level, but afterwards, by the pressure, made a curvature in the centre, the Africans, who had now formed wings on each side of them, surrounded the Romans on both sides, who incautiously rushed into the intermediate space; and presently extending their wings, enclosed the enemy on the rear also.

Raise slightly the left heel and right toe; face to the right turning on the right heel, assisted by a slight pressure on the ball of the left foot; place the left foot by the side of the right.

The men preserve their intervals from the side of the guide, yielding to pressure from that side and resisting pressure from the opposite direction; they recover intervals, if lost, by gradually opening out or closing in; they recover alignment by slightly lengthening or shortening the step; the rear-rank men cover their file leaders at 40 inches.

The men preserve their intervals from the side of the guide, yielding to pressure from that side and resisting pressure from the opposite direction; they recover intervals, if lost, by gradually opening out or closing in; they recover alignment by slightly lengthening or shortening the step; the rear-rank men cover their file leaders at 40 inches.

In those parts where the population was most dense the pressure was comparatively light, but there was scarcely an harbor or city on any of our great inlets which could be considered secure.

The pressure was most sensibly felt in 1814, after the attack on this city and its capture, when the invading force, retiring to its squadron, menaced alike Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond.

In the course of the war the State had augmented its taxes to meet the pressure, but the funds being still inadequate, it borrowed money to a considerable amount, which was applied to the payment of the militia for the services thus rendered.

These new States had completely achieved their independence before it was acknowledged by the United States, and they have since maintained it with little foreign pressure.

In vain the overseer plead the pressure for hands, and the busy season.

"She sees her child at distance die "But now her stedfast heart can bear "Unmov'd, the pressure of despair "When first the winds of winter urge their course "O'er the pure stream, whose current smoothly glides, "The heaving river swells its troubled tides; "But when the bitter blast with keener force, "O'er the high wave an icy fetter throws, "The harden'd wave is fix'd in dead repose.

There was no warm pressure in the extended hand.

The writer in describing the effects of the money pressure in Mississippi, says: "They, (the planters,) are now left without provisions and the means of living and using their industry, for the present year.

Periodical pressure of certain kinds of labor.

The severity of this periodical pressure, in preparing for market other staples of the slave states besides sugar, may be inferred from the following.

4036 examples of  pressure  in sentences