(1) The precipitating causes of stress are diverse, they include articles of clothing (tight straps and belts), recreational accouterments (football shoulder pads), or occupational pressure (rubbing of back in truck drivers).
Accoutrements
Definition:
(n. pl.) Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the present degree of accoutrements abscesses in thoracal part located close to spine couldn't be cited by this method of research.
(2) North Korea has focused on boosting tourism, providing the impoverished country with the accoutrements of a "civilised" nation and, most visibly, encouraging a broader interest in sports.
(3) Both circumvent the bind by employing the life-style solution, a strategy that attempts to heal by covertly filling the empty self with the accoutrements, values, and mannerisms of idealized figures.
(4) But Wenger could take heart for the battles ahead in the manner of the response to Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Stoke City, which had come with all of the usual accoutrements of a bad Arsenal loss.
(5) In some ways Co-op has all the accoutrements of big business: a swanky new £100m head office in central Manchester, glass-fronted and cylindrical, and big pay cheques for its bosses.
(6) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
(7) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.
(8) Kim Jong-un "clearly has a penchant for the modern accoutrements of life", he said.
(9) The costume made her an anonymous test subject and stripped her of the accoutrements of sexuality or eroticism.
(10) The navy gave him a home and a wage – an unroyal accoutrement that was very much needed.
(11) There are horse-drawn carts filled high with hay and in the villages of bare-brick homes, whose only modern accoutrement appears to be the satellite, many live close to their animals tethered in adjacent muddy courtyards.
(12) To posture as a superpower, we had to possess a superpower's accoutrements.
(13) Fans in Seattle fill an NFL stadium, march to games and mimic the accoutrements of ultras culture from Europe and South America.
(14) 9.21pm BST 63 min: And now Lampard has a yellow card to go with his arm accoutrement, for sliding in rashly on Martin.
(15) As many have pointed out, it beggars belief that Sharapova and her huge entourage – all the machinery and accoutrements of modern sport from IMG to Nike, and her own medical and support staff – could have missed the fact that a drug she had been taking for a decade had been made illegal.
(16) In her campaign for the governorship, she easily outwitted her male opponent, a traditional Texan Republican with cowboy accoutrements.
(17) All the accoutrements of a modern major sporting event were present and correct – the sponsors’ branding, the all but sold-out stands, the painted faces and the garish wigs – but there was also an impatience to get under way and park the concerns of the buildup.
(18) Just as students today are burdened if they don’t have home Internet—and at the university where I work, that is true of some of our commuter students, much as people might find that hard to believe—there will be an expectation that successful living as a human will require being equipped with pricey accoutrements… Reflecting on this makes me concerned that as the digital divide widens, people left behind will be increasingly invisible and increasingly seen as less than full humans.” • Beware the Internet of Things
(19) The great Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness noted in 1925 that Reykjavik had finally acquired all the accoutrements of modernity: “not only a university and a movie theatre, but also football and homosexuality”.
(20) From here also issue other accoutrements of statecraft: the national debt, Bank of England and budget.