Sentence examples for duress into from inspiring English sources

Sporting a cloud of ginger-colored whiskers and an eyeglass on a ribbon, Ames Adamson invests Fagin with a seedy elegance that evaporates under duress into desperation.

With Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford among the stars drafted (seemingly under duress) into the ensemble, and the violence tamped down to pre-teen levels, the whole enterprise is only a few testosterone injections short of becoming The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

One important question is whether high-pressure solicitations for donations from Mr. Buchanan's business partners and employees crossed the line into duress.

When a party is forced, by duress, to enter into a contract, there is no agreement, and therefore no legally binding contract.[6] For example, if you coerced your neighbor into watering your garden every day by threatening to call the neighborhood association to report their backyard chickens, your contract could be invalid.

By rendering in meticulous detail the art and craft of whaling, he paid homage to ordinary men engaged under duress in the dangerous work of cutting up majestic animals into commodities.

"The courts are beginning to give pre-nups more evidential weight provided the parties have had independent legal advice, exchanged full financial disclosure, that it's not entered into under duress and is not unfair.

Under much emotion and duress, Roy was forced into retirement at age 27.

She claimed that she had no role in the killing other than helping her brother, under duress, load the body into his car.

While arguments can also be made in her case for aggressively questioning her and not delaying to wait for her attorney, the judge didn't seem to have any problem with allowing Rodriguez's confession obtained under this level of duress to be admitted into the court as evidence.

A contract is voided in the following circumstances: It was entered into under duress.

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".