Sentence examples for work under duress from inspiring English sources

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Plus to be honest a right flank of Theo-Glen in a game against the hosts where a draw will do is too much like going out in a thunder storm with a cardboard umbrella, or perhaps an umbrella made from some attractive lightweight miracle substance that may or may not work under duress.

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Then, as the police realized that the children, though paid, were often working under duress, they started leading these operations.

He insists that it provides proof that the banker sold his works under duress from the Nazis – the key issue in the current legal battle.

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 modern slavery bill, due to pass into law before the election, will help the 13,000 people estimated to be working under duress in the UK but may also put pressure on police resources, warned Shaun Sawyer, chief constable of Devon and Cornwall.

Spotswood's defence rested on the idea that he'd been working under duress, and was basically being forced to drive McNeil around to move the drugs.

But what truly dances in the mind's eye as March comes to a close are not the results from various continents but the creative work done under duress in Florida this past week by Sergio García and Agnieszka Radwanska.

Although Giáp went to work "reluctantly, under duress", he may have found the task easier due to the fact that he was faced with a fait accompli.

They work under unimaginable duress, prohibition and threats -- continued support from international human rights organizations will play a big role in protecting LGBT people in Uganda.

It contains works acquired under duress from prominent Jewish collectors fleeing Germany, such as Camille Pissarro's "Rue St. Honoré in the Rain," a great impressionist urban landscape whose ownership is claimed by the Cassirer family.

THE emerging new country of South Sudan, which has voted overwhelmingly for secession from the north, has already become a leading nation of "the workshop": not a place where hard work gets done under duress but where the language of aid is taking hold even among the natives.

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