Sentence examples for in duress from inspiring English sources

He was standing on a chair, conducting the doctors and patients into the kind of order achievable in duress through a combination of duty and adrenaline.

Among them are a television appearance where he promoted the company just before it was sold to Wells Fargo in duress and at least one open regulatory inquiry.

Mr. Bailey said the views of Mr. Seifert and others reflected the fact that they were dealing with borrowers in duress.

But it's part of a pattern that runs back through all of baseball's past — through the amphetamines that veterans pressed on younger players, the spitballs pitchers boasted about throwing, and every other edge that athletes turned to in duress.

At last year's television industry upfront, the then NBC entertainment chief faced a sea of marketers pitching a fourth-place network in duress.

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Some accounts say that a photograph was found of him in an N.K.V.D. uniform and that he was turned in under duress by his sister.

The patient in case 1 presented to the ED in psychotic duress.

After expanding rapidly, the chain found itself undercapitalized and in financial duress.

"No one has said that profits are down, no one has said that we are on the verge of losing money, no one has said we are in economic duress".

Although some of those who end up working as prostitutes travel to London with full knowledge of what they will be doing, hundreds more are brought in under duress and forced to work as sex slaves.