Sentence examples for acted under duress from inspiring English sources

Reid maintained that she acted under duress in a Mail on Sunday interview earlier this month, despite her guilty plea.

While not in a position to provide a philosophical opinion on questions concerning personal identity or what constitutes an action, the ordinary person nevertheless recognizes cases in which an accused person was "not himself" or "did not mean to do it" or acted under duress, and sees these as mitigating circumstances.

Finally, the Supreme Court majority upheld the validity of another aspect of the law as enacted by Congress namely, that it was all right for the government to assume that a potentially expatriating act had been performed voluntarily, and that any claim that a person had acted under duress was up to the person involved to establish by preponderance of evidence.

For instance, it may be relevant as to the state of mind of the person hearing the statement, and his state of mind may be material to his defence of having acted under duress.

Dixon said he would have wanted to know whether Shegerian acted under duress.

Revisionists recognize that combatants act under duress and in conditions of factual and moral uncertainty.

How would you act under duress?

"The government acted under the guise of democracy".

Sometimes he even acted, under the name Abelardo Bello.

Israel rejected any suggestion it acted under pressure, however.

He said Mr. Tej had acted under pressure from "high-ranking people" who oppose his government.