Civil litigation and criminal defense of the innocent impose psychological stress, often severe, upon the parties involved.

Seines should be favored when practical, such as in small streams and rivers, because they impose less stress on the fish than electroshockers.

Even the New First Law would have imposed fatal stress.

And for some, imposing the anxiety and stress of the S.A.T. steals yet another thread of childhood from youngsters who are growing up too fast.

He concluded that "the artificial prevention of the natural contraction imposes intolerable stress".

Selenium compounds have disparate abilities to impose oxidative stress and induce apoptosis.

As the training for this imposes repeated high stress on the aircraft, the airframe lifetime would have been severely limited by metal fatigue, and this maneuver was eliminated.

Washington Heights has in recent years evolved into a booming drug marketplace that imposes enormous stress on police and law-abiding residents alike.

This was his ninth search, and they were all imposing far too much stress on his convalescent body.

Consequently wind in alpine regions imposes severe mechanical stress on plants.