Definition of "pressures" []

• Plural form of pressure. (noun)

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• "He adds that billions of people would turn out to mark Jerusalem Day if it were not for what he called the pressures of arrogant world powers and their threats of arrest and suppression."
• "Mohaddessin criticized what he described as pressures imposed on Ashraf residents ever since the transfer of supervision on Ashraf from American forces to the Iraqi military in January."
• "Only, the album never came out, save in a truncated version, with the band splintering due to record-label pressures."