• Cooling systems to the reactors were knocked out, fuel rods overheated, and attempts to release pressure in the chambers led to explosions in the buildings housing the reactors.

    BBC: Japan nuclear: Tepco halts Fukushima cooling plan

  • "If President Obama wants to visit the region peacefully, he should exert pressure on Israel to release the prisoners -- especially the ones who are on hunger strike -- or else he will visit while Palestine is on fire, " Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe said.

    CNN: Palestinians blame Israel for prisoner's death

  • "If President Obama wants to visit the region peacefully, he should exert pressure on Israel to release the prisoners -- especially the ones who are on hunger strike -- or else he will visit while Palestine is on fire, " Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe said.

    CNN: Palestinians protest inmate's death, warn Obama

  • 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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  • Normally, when a well begins to flow, the release of pressure cleans up the well bore of contaminants and other debris in the hole during the first few hours it is opened up.

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  • There had been pressure to release the information since the Bristol Royal Infirmary baby heart death scandal, when surgeons with higher than average death rates continued to operate on children.

    BBC: NHS to reveal surgery death rates

  • The process involves pumping water containing small percentages of other materials into the porous shale under pressure to hydraulically fracture it and release the trapped oil and gas.

    FORBES: Promised Land's Fracking Fictions: OPEC Goes Hollywood With Crocudrama

  • Family members quickly kidnapped two foreigners to pressure for the release of their kin.

    NPR: Gaza Clans Occupying Political Vacuum

  • Mukhtar Naqvi, a spokesman for main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, accused the Indian government of not putting enough pressure on Pakistan earlier to seek the release of Mr. Singh from the Pakistani prison.

    WSJ: Indian Prisoner Dies in Pakistan

  • Responding to GOP pressure to release details of the secretive Gang of Eight deliberations, Rubio promised Friday to brief his fellow Republican senators on Tuesday.

    CNN: Springtime for immigration reform?

  • Any advancements made by Research in Motion and the release of its BB10 operating system will only increase the pressure on Microsoft to execute, but this could be both good and bad.

    FORBES: Microsoft Is Still Finding It Difficult To Catch Up To Apple

  • Mr Berlusconi is also currently on trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute, and later abusing his powers by putting pressure on the police to release her from custody.

    BBC: Italy court upholds Berlusconi tax fraud conviction

  • Ahead of the three-day trip, a leaked PA report for international donors urged them to pressure the Israeli government to release its revenues, warning of a "possible slide into institutional and political collapse".

    BBC: Israel to resume transfer of PA tax revenue

  • Ever since Colombian police officer, John Frank Pinchao escaped from the narco-terrorist insurgency inside Colombia, known as the FARC on April 28, 2007, there has been growing pressure on President Uribe to work for the release of the remaining 60 hostages.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Colombian hostage crisis

  • Fracking involves drilling a borehole before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas.

    BBC: Keynsham fracking plans put on hold by UK Methane

  • This year he completed what is believed to be the first ever fracture stimulation procedure in Turkey: injecting a mixture of water and sand at high pressure down the wells to break up rock and release gas.

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  • "This is an outrage because they should have come a long time ago and pressure needs to be put on the Eritrean authorities to release our people, " she said.

    BBC: Ethiopian refugees' atrocity tales

  • Fracking is the process of blasting water at high pressure into shale rock to release oil or gas held within it.

    BBC: US oil production 'to jump by a quarter by 2014'

  • And the strategy seems to be similar to what Israel's doing in Gaza to make life difficult for the civilian population so that they will pressure, in Lebanon, Hezbollah, and in Gaza, Hamas, to release the captured Israeli soldiers.

    NPR: Border Fighting Spurs Israeli Blockade of Lebanon

  • He would like to see pressure for political changes in Asia, particularly Indonesia, where his wishes include the release of a prominent union leader and progress on human rights in East Timor.

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  • Bharatiya Janata leader Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed the Indian government and said he was "very pained by the gross indifference" by the Indian government in not putting enough pressure on Islamabad earlier to seek Singh's release.

    NPR: Indians Angry At Convicted Spy's Death In Pakistan

  • International attention remained on Suu Kyi's through her imprisonment, exerting pressure on Burma for her release and democratic elections, and continues to buzz today as she travels the world today.

    FORBES: Aung San Suu Kyi

  • Fracking involves the injection of water containing a surfactant and various other chemicals under high pressure into a source rock e.g. shale, causing the latter to fracture and release natural gas (principally methane).

    FORBES: British "Fracking" Causes Earthquake -- What Now?

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