The pressure on the analyst to increase productivity - to report more results - leaves little or no time to monitor the system.

But she'd gone beyond restraint, and the electrical pressure in her brain left no room for uncertainty.

According to one 36-year-old dentist quoted by the survey, the new pressures of China's market economy simply do not leave time for a family.

The pressure to make up ground has left little time for sleep.

The pressure of the play had left him more drained than he had ever been.

Strong commercial pressure and private affairs left their mark.

When that pressure left, though, it brought no sense of relief.

He understood the pressure a little better since Pompey had left him.

The pressure of her fingernail on the paper actually leaves an impression under the words.

Yet the pressure of the situation left no space for self- recrimination.