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If all they do with the Stabilisation and Reconstruction "Force" (careful avoidance of scale in their title you should notice, is it a brigade, a regiment or a staff branch?) is reassign already overpressed military engineers and logisticians and hope they can make the cake rise by finding some fantasy land world builders in the TA who are prepared to deploy for 6 months then it is merely a diversion.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

So I'm really looking forward to seeing this one, even if some of it does sound a little cliched - the fish tank metaphor seems a little overpressed, even in the trailer - the girl is always looking out the window, like a fish in a tank.

Fish Tank Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

But we just overpressed it with our firepower, and that was it.

CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2003 2003

For whereas one part of his army had unmistakably got the better, and was pursuing the enemy at a good distance from him, he yet retreated in confusion into his camp, not so much because he was overpressed by those with whom he was engaged, as out of mistrust of success and through a panic fear.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

A basic difference in handling a catamaran as opposed to a single-hulled boat is that you turn downwind when the boat becomes overpressed, rather than turning upwind and letting the sail luff.

Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

A basic difference in handling a catamaran as opposed to a single-hulled boat is that you turn downwind when the boat becomes overpressed, rather than turning upwind and letting the sail luff.

Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

There are some that are so burdened and overpressed with the sense of their sins, that they are scarce able to hold up under the weight of them, — under the doubts and fears wherewith they are distressed.

Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

Students, and children overpressed at lessons, are apt to suffer from it.

Papers on Health John Kirk

At the age of fifteen he was married, and on the bride's arrival the falsity of the middleman through whom the engagement had been long ago contracted was revealed, for the bride was a helpless cripple and a serious burden on the already overpressed household.

The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915

Sometimes, if overpressed, Ellen would ask Miss Fortune to let her stop; saying, as Alice had advised her, that she wished to have her do such and such things.

The Wide, Wide World 1892