overwhelming pressure
1Radiation pressure — is the pressure exerted upon any surface exposed to electromagnetic radiation. If absorbed, the pressure is the energy flux density divided by the speed of light. If the radiation is totally reflected, the radiation pressure is doubled.For… …
2News International phone hacking scandal — Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, the parent company of News International The News International phone hacking scandal is an ongoing controversy involving mainly the News of the World but also other… …
3News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB — The News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB was a proposed takeover of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) by News Corporation, the media conglomerate of Rupert Murdoch. The bid was launched in June 2010, but was withdrawn in July 2011 following the …
4Mantle (geology) — For other uses, see Mantle (disambiguation). Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. The mantle is a part of a terrestrial planet or other rocky body large enough to have differentiation by density. The interior of the Earth, similar to the other… …
5Moho line — The Mantle is a part of an astronomical object. Earth s mantle is a 2,900 km thick rocky shell comprising approximately 70% of Earth s volume. It is predominantly solid and overlies the Earth s iron rich core, which occupies about 30% of Earth s… …
6Zhengtai Campaign — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Zhengtai Campaign partof=the Chinese Civil War place=Hebei and Shanxi, China date=April 8, 1947 May 4, 1947 result=Communist victory combatant1= combatant2= commander1= commander2=flagicon|China|army Nie… …
7Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) — Plevna Monument near the walls of Kitai gorod …
8compel — com·pel /kəm pel/ vt com·pelled, com·pel·ling: to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law cannot compel the defendant to testify the result...is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth… …
9Joran van der Sloot — Aruba Police Department photograph of Van der Sloot, 2005 …
10ANUSIM — (Heb. אֲנוּסִים; forced ones ), persons compelled by overwhelming pressure, whether by physical threats, psychological stress, or economic sanctions, to abjure Judaism and adopt a different faith (in contradistinction to meshummadim, or voluntary …
