• After that, I felt enormous self-pressure to have all of my stories be just as popular.

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  • The control freak's desire to be successful is strong, but it comes with a lot of self-inflicted pressure.

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  • Not surprisingly, self-imposed pressure is involved, with each athlete determining the pressure he or she is willing to feel.

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  • The world No. 1 blamed his poor play this year on his swing and self-imposed pressure, not his new Nike clubs.

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  • So the self-employed and other dollar-earners face both political pressure and increasing taxation.

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  • That said, pressure is ultimately self-inflicted and no-one expects more of Andy than the guy himself.

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  • She said it was "quite a step" for children under pressure to turn to self-harm.

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  • Self-regulation, social norms, and public pressure can also help counter many problems without resorting to major changes in liability norms.

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  • The new criteria replaces a set of 17 old criteria and focuses on specific issues that affect many nursing home residents, such as pressure ulcers, infections, self-reported pain, falls, and general well-being.

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  • This rule (which went into effect near the 2007 market top and was suspended near the 2009 bottom) vastly magnified subprime mortgage weakness, effectively forcing banks into near self-perpetuating rounds of asset writedowns, putting pressure on bank balance sheets until they had to sell more liquid assets to meet capital requirements.

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  • Along with tackling pressure, athletes must also focus on self-confidence, which is the number-one variable for impacting high-level performance.

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  • But Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Alliance's leader and self-styled president of Afghanistan, was sidelined, apparently under pressure from the American and German governments, among others.

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  • General Musharraf, they argue, is, despite his self-congratulatory new memoirs (see article), isolated politically and under pressure from insurgents in Baluchistan.

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  • If enough networks like this emerge, it could pressure the Time Warners of the world into unlocking their self-administered handcuffs and give viewers an online-only option.

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  • Instead, he wanted to "empower people" and "build self-esteem", adding that social media could be a useful tool in harnessing peer pressure.

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  • In 1927, as floodwaters threatened New Orleans, a self-appointed committee of businessmen persuaded the government to dynamite a downstream levee and release the pressure of the swelling torrent.

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  • However, under pressure from Iraqi politicians, Mr Bremer agreed last November to bring forward the transfer to self-rule to this month.

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  • As Creswell puts it, self-affirmation provides "an easy and portable strategy that you can roll out before you enter a high-pressure situation where you are required to perform well, " whether it's engaging in public speaking, readying for an important exam or giving a critical presentation to your boss and her boss.

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