Usage of "high-pressure"

Aggressively and persistently persuasive.

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Examples for "hard-hitting"

Examples for "hard-hitting"

Greek MPs voted for the bailout, including hard-hitting austerity measures, on Thursday. 
 Radio NZ 

Yesterday, he produced a hard-hitting analysis of the challenges facing Aer Lingus. 
 The Irish Times 

Did Mr McKay think his movie was a hard-hitting satire on capitalism? 
 The Guardian 

Is a hard-hitting lower-order batsman who can also take apart tired opposition. 
 The Guardian 

Lee embraced the volatile times by producing hard-hitting songs by Rastafarian artistes. 
 Jamaica Observer 

Ús de high-pressure en anglès

All that was required was to place them in a high-pressure situation. 
 A Long Way from Home 

But it was nonstop, high-pressure work, which was probably good for us. 
 Life 

Regardless of who plays, they will enter a high-pressure situation on Thursday. 
 News.com.au 

Customers complained Cash Express used high-pressure collection tactics, the CFPB database shows. 
 Reuters 

The mayor introduced the high-pressure fellows to other people-andthe milking began. 
 Secret Armies / The New Technique of Nazi Warfare 

Its products include specialty chemicals, photo-sensitive plates, high-pressure cylinders and metal panels. 
 Reuters 

You have fought thousands of matches in the most high-pressure scenarios imaginable. 
 My Fight/Your Fight 

The size of the resulting multilamellar liposomes was reduced by high-pressure homogenization. 
 Pubmed 

The processor reflected on its creation in a hiss of high-pressure steam. 
 Perdido Street Station 

Nearly a week of high-pressure application appeared to have accomplished so little. 
 As It Was in the Beginning 

High-strung, high-pressure editors omit the unnecessary, condensation being part of their creed. 
 The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women 

It was a high-pressure hose, and the corpse jumped on the table. 
 Under the dome: a novel 

The worm rose up again, thrashing about like an unchecked high-pressure hose. 
 Mentats of Dune 

A high-pressure spray of orange pop hit Billy full in the face. 
 Doctor Sleep 

Two American laboratories tested the peppers using a new technology, high-pressure liquid chromatography. 
 Wicked plants 

DEE makes high-pressure piping systems for the power and oil and gas industries. 
 Reuters 

Significats de high-pressure en anglès