"through duress" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone was forced to do something against their will, usually because of a threat or pressure from someone else. Example: She only agreed to sign the contract through duress, as her boss had threatened to fire her if she didn't. Another example: The confession was made through duress, as the suspect had been threatened and coerced by the police.
Only retrospectively, and through duress, was an agreement made with Iceland's Depositors and Investors Guarantee Fund to compensate the British and Dutch governments for the cost of bailing out their own citizens.
Traveling this summer, studying the rise and decline of the ancient Inca culture in Peru and observing evidence of human suffering and triumph walking ruins in Europe, I have been struck with the reminder that life persists because it evolves through duress.
FBI and military interrogators who began work with the suspects in late 2006 called themselves the "Clean Team" and set as their goal the collection of virtually the same information the CIA had obtained from five of the six through duress at secret prisons.
Plus it's a colorful true story made through much duress by Mark Wahlberg, a star with a lot of good will.
Nyquist will never inspire comparisons to the awesome physical specimens of racing history, but he shares some of the traits that made Affirmed great —versatility, an ability to remain calm and fit through the duress of travel and a stubborn resistance to letting rivals pass him.
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.
He stayed up in the belvedere, hoping the new sun would warm him, but daylight brought a shrill wind crying like the voices of all the families, wealthy and destitute, who had lived in his house, who, each in turn, had given it up through death or duress and left it to falter.
And, moreover, any piece of intelligence which is obtained under duress, through the use of abusive techniques, would be of questionable credibility, and additionally it would do more harm than good when it inevitably became known that abusive practices were used.
"One side argues that all prostitution is — or should be — treated as slavery, and that most women are coerced into prostitution through physical and psychological duress or out of desperate economic emergency".
The Indian parent may also withdraw their consent to an adoption at any time prior to a final order, or within two years of the final order if their consent was obtained through fraud or under duress.
"It makes me sad to witness a generation having to grow up in the same conditions of duress I experienced through my youth.
