Sentence examples for some duress from inspiring English sources

"I think everybody wants to see us under some duress.

Johnson & Johnson's money-back proposal on Velcade, known generically as bortezomib, was also made under some duress.

China returned to a slightly more flexible currency system in June under some duress, and has let the yuan rise by 3% from early September.

But both deserve credit for accepting, albeit under some duress, the basic elements of the Clinton administration's strategy for preventing forest fires.

He played in the school band, played, albeit under some duress, at the parties his father was partial to throwing in the house, and he was good enough to pick and choose gigs with several local bands.

It's a place that Guyland residents visit on rare occasion and only, one suspects, under some duress, staying just long enough to witness one of their own inducted into the marriage-and-a-family ranks before scurrying back to their beer pong and "The Mike and Mike Show".

"There were some that were unconscious, some that were nauseous, lethargic, some in respiratory duress," New Haven Fire Chief John Alston said of the people treated by emergency responders.

"These characters are under some sort of duress.

Often these agreements have some element of duress.

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

Whole communities left Anatolia under duress; some of them became famous in later philosophical history, such as Phocaea, which founded Elea in Italy, a place famous for philosophy, and Teos, which founded Abdera in northern Greece, the home of the 5th-century atomists Democritus and Leucippus.