Sentence examples for mental duress from inspiring English sources

Since her early days in Serbia, Abramović has put herself under extreme physical and mental duress to jolt viewers out of ordinary patterns of thinking.

My lawyer said that I was under mental duress when I signed the contract so the contract is void.

Whether they embrace the experience or spiral into depression, all winter-overs experience the mental duress of sensory deprivation.

Physical exercise can aid in the release of stressors, which if not discarded, may lead us into making those poor financial and interpersonal choices we would make under mental duress.

For so many of those years, students of all colors, races, religions, eagerly or at least dutifully, fulfilled the "Core" requirement with no complaint of debilitating mental duress or charges of xenophobia or favoring white supremacy.

"I'd like them to know what kind of mental duress the situation has put me under, and how positive it would be for my mental health to go back to using the correct restroom," he said.

Reasons that may invalidate a marriage: inability to consent to the marriage, either because of intoxication or mental illness, duress or force; fraud (e.g., marrying only for a green card); being underage (one party was a minor),[5] and the inability of having sexual intercourse, which must not have been known at the time of the wedding.

Her metamorphosis was especially impressive for two reasons: it came after a period of mental and physical duress and it came relatively late, around the time Ms. Jaffe turned 30 and almost 10 years after she became a high-profile principal dancer.

The defense attorney is trying to persuade the jurors that his client is not responsible for his action, but not for any of the standard excusing conditions — insanity, accident, mistaken belief, duress, mental handicap, and so on.

District Judge Jay E. Banks instructed the jury on October 22 , 1985 that they had the option of a verdict for the lesser offense of manslaughter if they found Gardner to be under mental or emotional duress when he shot Burdell.

A prison would be unlikely to fulfil his medical needs, she said, asking: "How can we say Pistorius will not be a victim of gang rape?" The double amputee would be under particular duress because of his disability and fragile mental state following the fatal shooting of Steenkamp.