fold under the pressure

Outstanding students would often fold under the pressure of the timed test.

The only thing that prevents him from totally folding under the pressure at times is his pride as a man and officer.

"Any lesser candidate would have folded under the pressure."

Some worked out, some folded under the pressure.

Still others said the Prime Minister would fold under the pressure, and agree to a watered-down reform plan.

But the Pirates were refusing to fold under the pressure of the Mets' pursuit.

His ability to persevere makes Lehman confident that if he contends again this weekend, he will not fold under the pressure.

Will more teams fold under the pressure of taking on operating costs once borne by the N.B.A.?

Specifically, the championship would come down to whether Houston's guards would fold under the pressure of New York's suffocating defense.

While some food suppliers are folding under the pressure, others are finding new ways to squeeze profits from, of all things, sardines and cream of asparagus soup.

The 49ers are 4-3 at home, and the Cardinals are 1-5 on the road, but San Francisco has followed each step forward with several steps back and may fold under the pressure.

A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda (Mirai Shida), has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure.

With the vulnerable Grosjean in front of him, hearing cries of "Do it for France" from the crowd, Agassi could not put him in a position to fold under the pressure.

"It was the type of game where one team had to fold under the pressure; obviously, it was us," said the Villanova coach, Rollie Massimino, whose team slipped to 8-6 over all and 0-2 in the Big East.

When Coffey seemingly folds under the pressure of making a final decision, his hardliner National Security Adviser, Admiral Carrell effectively stages a bloodless coup d'etat, circumventing the President and communicating the rejection of the aliens' terms.

As you may have heard, Montreal Canadiens GM Pierre Gauthier folded under the pressure from the growing Francophone protests about his hiring of Cunneyworth as interim (emphasis ours) coach, the first Habs bench boss not to also speak French in 40 years.

If the fifth-seeded Henin could only stand up for her first-round match at the French Open, if she could just pull her wicked backhand from its sheath a few times for show, maybe the wide-eyed Aniko Kapros would fold under the pressure of her first stadium court appearance.