It just increases the pressure on us to prove that we are right.

I thought maybe the pressure of final exams had proven too stressful or that a few girls just learned that they'd failed.

Ultimately, the pressure proves greater than the movement can stand.

However, mounting public pressure proved disruptive for the nascent party and he was forced to resign.

The terrific pressure had proven too great for the flawed rock above.

Did discrimination and pressure to prove themselves lead them to take chances they shouldn't have?

For the Handlers' children, it seems that the pressure of living up to their plastic namesakes proved too much.

Soon, however, the pressures of growth proved too much for it.

But despair and social pressures proved stronger than either mother love or the fear of death.

This country has a history of linking the arts with moral uplift, and the pressure to do so now may prove debilitating.