Sentence examples for violent duress from inspiring English sources

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The coveted attribute among players in today's N.F.L., as Revis himself will tell you, is "consistency" — by which he means the ability to repeatedly execute athletic skills with exacting precision at high speed under violent duress.

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"The hardened terrorist is mercilessly 'squeezed,' it is said, for information through the use of the old, more physically brutal and violent forms of duress [redacted]," states the cable, which did not criticize the use of torture.

But, even at the height of Bill Clinton's war with Ken Starr or Nixon's war with everybody, the President's words were never this violent, because even under duress there was a shared, broad-based understanding that to use violent language was to invite violence into the world.

And given that we're in an environment of economic duress and relatively low violent-crime rates, the moment is perfectly suited to them.There are, also, three broader points that we can take away from this movement.

On Friday, an official at an Iranian power company working in Syria said that videotaped statements from the captives released this week by a unit of the rebel Free Syrian Army, in which the men said that they were soldiers and had taken part in the violent suppression of dissent in Homs, were false and had been made under duress.

In the arguments for and against porn, those critical of the industry claim porn is violent and degrading towards women, and that those involved are often trafficked or working under duress.

The dog attacks and bulldozing over the weekend were an attempt to force a violent confrontation, but the protestors held fast to their peaceful intent in spite of extreme psychological and physical duress.

Quiet strength under duress.

Without coercion and duress.

There is emotional duress, too.

"I did it under duress.

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