Sentence examples for cracking under duress from inspiring English sources

But they seem to be Band-Aids rather than real solutions to a hospital system cracking under duress, some doctors say.

We, though, are out here in the now, unchecked and un-governed; Manchester's Victorian generation having coughed to their deaths after lifetimes of struggle, and these waterlogged alleys have occasional shafts of greeny-yellow grass jutting between flagstones that have cracked under duress like the people who tread them.

Who could crack under the pressure?

Obviously, this doesn't work if you have a broken hand or, presumably, you're under duress so it's fairly hard to crack a system using physical coercion.

Quiet strength under duress.

"It was under duress," this aide stressed.

Others pose as if under duress.

Such reforms were usually undertaken under duress.

"I did it under duress.

Each Knick was under duress.

For making choices under duress?