Quotes About Pressure

A prominent Indian analyst, Brahma Chellaney of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, described China's frontier strategy of constant outward pressure on its borders as one of 'salami slicing': 'A steady progression of small actions, none of which serves as a casus belli by itself, yet which over time lead cumulatively to a strategic transformation in China's favour.

In ordinary language: as a result of the pressure of the crowd, most people lead lives that are inauthentic and irresponsible. The "they" watches over "everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed." There is a general "levelling down," a socially enforced "averageness," in which everything authentic "gets glossed over as something that has long been well known.

Even today, other young people—not all of them Witnesses—face pressures to salute the flag under pain of suspension.

So on the fourth day they said to Samsonís wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your fatherís household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that the crowd would not crush Him.

For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.