According to Howard Greene, an independent counselor in Weston, Conn., there is an "inordinate pressure" on young people today to select a career earlier than ever.

Does that mean I create inordinate upward pressure on the prices of those stocks?

"The Navy is facing this inordinate pressure to cut, cut cut," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut.

My focus is not television, in the end, but the dead hand of hypercommercialism, that inordinate corporate pressure that drives everyone to improve the bottom line.

Four coaches will face inordinate pressure as the 1998 season unfolds.

I never got used to the inordinate pressure of the atmosphere, and Forta had to sedate me for the longer trips across the surface.

And so, if we're smart, we have an opportunity to use this as a very serious uniting effort to close down Syria and put inordinate pressure on Hezbollah.

The team ranked 23rd in the 32-team league in total defense, and its anemic running game put inordinate pressure on the passing game.

Maybe they are demanding such fat contracts because of the inordinate pressure we put on them to perform, a factor that generates extraordinary self-induced pressure.

Crawford's injury put inordinate pressure on Mooney, who, until today, had run only 8 times for 54 yards and had not thrown a pass.