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Each of those actions could have warranted more force, including baton strikes and pressure-point techniques.

UC Davis Launches Probe After Pepper Spray Video Associated Press 2011

That's more or less the pressure-point; it should be the middle of a muscle.

Last Weekend, part 2 of 2 melted_snowball 2010

While everyone else waits, frozen, an ANA soldier wanders into the frame, ignoring the others' warning shouts, steps on the pressure-point and loses half his face and a foot.

Occupying Kandahar Anne Jolis 2011

That's more or less the pressure-point; it should be the middle of a muscle.

Last Weekend, part 2 of 2 melted_snowball 2010

Signature Treatments: The Frequent Traveler works to combat the effects of environmental pollution and air travel with treatments that include exfoliation, a hot-stone massage, an Oriental head massage, and a pressure-point eye lift.

Top Global Spas Kate Ahlborn and Alannah Arguelles 2009

LISA BLOOM, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Let me bring Ric in, because, Ric, I know that one of the things these officers are saying is that pressure-point hits are appropriate under their training.

CNN Transcript May 22, 2009 2009

Kirk's consciousness seemed to float somewhere above his body, as if he could look down and see competent, swift hands bind up his bleeding arm, press a spray hypo home, then hold a pressure-point again as even the dressing did not fully stop the bleeding.

TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

Kirk's consciousness seemed to float somewhere above his body, as if he could look down and see competent, swift hands bind up his bleeding arm, press a spray hypo home, then hold a pressure-point again as even the dressing did not fully stop the bleeding.

TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

Kirk's consciousness seemed to float somewhere above his body, as if he could look down and see competent, swift hands bind up his bleeding arm, press a spray hypo home, then hold a pressure-point again as even the dressing did not fully stop the bleeding.

TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

If I believe (and I do) that the single most important measurement of potential disaster on this planet is the expanding population, and the single most powerful means of controlling population is the political and social equality of women (which seems to be true) then a reasonable case can be made that Women's issues are an incredibly important pressure-point for change, world-wide.

Bad Habits are good? Steven Barnes 2008