Standing up under the suffocating pressure of the long program may be all he needs to win a gold medal.

But the expectations built by that early success coupled with losing roughly two out of every three games so far this season has led to suffocating pressure.

Hideous pain shot through T'Prynn's body- sharp jabs in her back, searing heat against her face, suffocating pressure stealing her breath.

After Wednesday's exposure to Georgetown's suffocating full-court pressure, the Panthers swarmed through St. John's soft, half-court defense as if it weren't there.

The formless, suffocating pressure intensified, homing on my panic, trying to make me real enough to catch.

Prevailing over the challenge of Sahalee Country Club, a world-class field and the suffocating pressure that comes with Sunday afternoon, Singh won his first major championship.

She felt the struggles against the suffocating pressure becoming weaker until, with a final jerking convulsion, Baron Titus Cawdor went to join his ancestors.

And he would count on the possibility that suffocating pressure would leave the men's competition resembling boxing, with the man left standing declared the winner.

But amid the suffocating pressure of a final round over the Augusta National, when those with unsound swings or faint hearts inevitably wither, Couples passed every test.

Our fears are not unfounded, if account is taken of the increasingly suffocating pressure from the USA to import genetically modified products.