Sentence examples for considerable duress now from inspiring English sources

The admission he made yesterday, under considerable duress, now releases him from a personal "prison".

Tiffert added that an alleged confession by Gu would have been made "under considerable duress – duress that would call into question the credibility of the confession in our system".

If governments let this slide, they are acquiescing in China's being able to detain any ex diplomat to question him or her, under considerable duress, about anything.

"On her account... this was a grave example of a marriage which was forced under considerable duress, involving at one stage the production of a gun and physical violence upon her".

But these embarrassments are mere preliminaries to what McCain considers the three great mistakes of his adult life: signing a prison confession that he was a war criminal, under considerable duress; his role in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal; and his responsibility for the dissolution of his first marriage, to Carol Shepp, after he returned home from Vietnam.

Under considerable duress following the election, Facebook has expressed its intentions to combat the myriad forms of fake news that run rampant on its massive social platform.

"If blocking ads doesn't violate their TOS, why should flagging fake news?" Under considerable duress following the election, Facebook has expressed its intentions to combat the myriad forms of fake news that run rampant on its massive social platform.

Its hydroelectric potential is considerable and now being tapped.

A woman reluctantly agreed to send literature, though only under considerable lordly duress.

I read considerable in it now and then.

This research evaluates the effects of various elevated temperature cycles and peaks on the compression behaviour of pultruded fibre reinforce polymer (FRP) samples as a means of highlighting the durability and strength of FRP material under conditions designed to replicate considerable environmental duress.