"Rather than losing control when you release pent-up pressure, you'll find yourself back in charge, calm, organized, able to think clearly and make good decisions," she maintains.

The report, from the Department of Health and Human Services, describes pent-up pressures for a possible increase in health care spending in the near future.

They suggest pent-up pressure from people who sought to put off admitting financial defeat.

It clicked solidly into place, and somehow the pent-up pressure of the gun's mainspring was reassuring.

Two sets of doors thrust out into the roofless enclosure, as if extruded by pent-up pressure within.

A scream swelled in her, and when she held it back, the pent-up pressure was a painful burning in her chest.

That, in turn, will ease pent-up inflationary pressures.

Some of the drop, however, could be explained by pent-up pressure: The nervous Hong Kong market had been closed for the previous four sessions.

The whole edifice was humming softly under the enormous pent-up pressure.

According to Mr. Alarcon, letting in so many people would defuse the pent-up pressures for illegal immigration by boat people.