under stress

Yes, cops are under stress and tension (though their jobs are far less dangerous than normally supposed).

When the electrical grid is under stress, dialing down usage is as important as bringing new power on line.

His new book is Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool.

Most experts discount this—the engines would have been very audibly under stress, and the crew would have been alerted.

Whatever that kiss meant to him, he recognized that it was the loving impulse of a child under stress of strong emotion.

He is under stress and like all persons under tension he reacts extremely and hence inconsistently in different directions.

The last items of this category of consumption are not given up except under stress of the direst necessity.

The other comes when, under stress, he submits this defect to the eyes of another.

One man whistled under stress of the moment and then turned deeply crimson.