Sentence examples for statement under pressure from inspiring English sources

He initially admitted plotting an uprising across Russia but later denied it, saying he had made the statement under pressure.

The Iranian judicial procedures by law must allow legal counsel and are not allowed to use statements taken under pressure as facts.

But a few days later he retracted this statement, almost certainly under pressure from Indonesia's radical Muslim lobby.

Found by Mr. Workman's defense lawyers in a Phoenix motel in 1999, Mr. Davis gave a tearful videotaped statement saying that, under pressure from the authorities, he had lied on the stand when he said he saw Mr. Workman shoot Lieutenant Oliver.

Steinberg has since backed off those statements under public pressure.

And it's not just juvenile suspects who have given false statements under police pressure.

At the peace conference, held in Annapolis, Md., on November 27 and attended by 16 Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Syria, Israel and the Palestinians were only able to agree on a joint statement under heavy American pressure and by avoiding specific reference to any of the core issues.

Mr. Bush made his statement after the White House came under pressure from conservative Republicans in Congress to head off further spending increases and again take up the cause of tax cuts as the best remedy for the weakened economy.

The LMA statement said Mackay had been under pressure at the time of the messages and he was "letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter".

HBOS, owner of the country's largest mortgage lender, the Halifax, admitted in its trading statement that margins were coming under pressure from the fall of the Bank of England's official base rate to a 57-year low of 2%.

Mr Raghip and Mark Braithwaite both claimed that their statements were false and made under pressure after long periods of interrogation.