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Mr Saifi, alleged the case was meant to "pressurise" the family, noting that a local veterinary report identified the meat as goat, not cow.

From BBC Nov. 19, 2025

A TUI plane with 193 people on board did not pressurise after engineers failed to turn switches back on following maintenance, an investigation has found.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2024

After the disaster, Greek air investigators determined that flight 522 had crashed because it had failed to pressurise properly.

From The Guardian Sep. 19, 2020

AdvocAid is hoping that the film’s international platform will help it to push for legal reforms and pressurise the police into changing their behaviour.

From The Guardian Dec. 17, 2018

This early model was known as a hydraulis organ because it used a tank of water to pressurise the air for the pipes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall