Sentence examples for under severe duress from inspiring English sources

Kobe Bryant has produced, but under severe duress from the defensive stalwart Shane Battier.

The judge was under severe duress, and the charge of hijacking was added later and made retroactively applicable to Mr. Sharif.

Critics have focused mainly on the city's own policies, saying that the Human Resources Administration has the legal discretion to void financial claims against the poor and the elderly, including homeowners, who are already under severe duress.

He goes to Portugal under severe duress, but once there he becomes a valued and trusted member of the SS inner circle, helping the Nazis smuggle gold out of accounts in Switzerland to safe havens elsewhere and to set up local banks to launder the loot.

Promises made on the battlefield to lay down arms on the condition that the opponent will not harm one are also made under severe duress.

The result is the same as any aftermath of a hurricane -- we are under severe duress.

When viewed alongside the cases arguing "public safety" as a rationale for questioning individuals while under duress--without reading them rights or granting them access to their attorney, and judges (at least in the case I served on) accepting police evidence obtained under such severe duress as evidence to convict--it seems we are rapidly losing our rights.

Its graphically remarkable first issue reimagines a news-about-news event from more than 30 years ago, when, under severe technological duress, The New York Times managed to get a paper out on the night of the 1977 citywide blackout.

Doing seemingly prosaic things while under severe duress, he said, was the hallmark of an abused woman like Ms. Sheehan, conditioned to operating in a combat zone.

Times of severe economic duress, management experts say, can serve to sharply accelerate trends already under way.

That is me being under stress, under duress.