Sentence examples for by duress from inspiring English sources
Having extracted a confession and everything else it could by duress, the agency's priority now was to keep their star prisoner sane.
The hard questions, as the archbishop learned, arise in the area of family law, where the agreement to arbitrate may be uninformed or obtained by duress.
Bonita's other children had been toughened by their bad dad and their rough neighborhood and their over-all hard luck, rendered sturdy by duress, but Isaac had been made too tender.
Mr. Watt and Mr. Ashmore had at their disposal nothing like the evidence that might convince a jury that these statements had not been obtained by duress, or, rather, prevent the jury from using a suspicion of duress as an excuse for an acquittal.
What if one's promise has been extracted by duress?
"What do you mean by duress?" I asked my rather insistent client.
The Taliban accounts may be influenced by the duress of interrogation or tinged with bravado.
In this version, the characters are full of physical tics, warts, and wounds, at once trapped and ruined by the duress of life, and a panoply of outstanding performers from Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre — the stunning Elin Klinga, the terrifying Jan Malmsjö, and the memorable, birdlike Gunnel Lindblom — deliver the wallop of Strindberg's struggle between purity and sin.
Worldwide many young people driven by economic duress, exploitation, social exclusion and lack of family support turn to commercial sex and injecting drug use.
She startled the reporters and the authorities of the State University of San Jose, California, by announcing that she had been pledged under duress by the university to sign an oath of allegiance which she regarded as "obnoxious, silly, and demeaning".
The one that whizzed back at them was celebrated a hundred years later by Ralph Waldo Emerson, himself a Concord man, then memorized (usually under duress) by millions of schoolchildren: Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
