Sentence examples for external duress from inspiring English sources

Any external duress on Ukraine, any more than we've seen in recent weeks … it really would not be in the interests of Russia to do any such thing".

When asked if he was worried that Russia might "send in the tanks" to support Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine, the Foreign Secretary said he advised against what he called any kind of "external duress".

Sometimes external pressure from an encroaching state has placed a people under such duress that it ceded individual rights to a government of its own that would be capable of offering effective resistance.

There is emotional duress, too.

Quiet strength under duress.

Without coercion and duress.

"It was under duress," this aide stressed.

Others pose as if under duress.

Such reforms were usually undertaken under duress.

This book is about language under duress.

Great house, steep discount, vacated under duress.