duress
paksaan
definition
noun
confessions extracted under duress
threats, violence, constraints, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better judgment.
example
It may sound unfashionably Corinthian but sport's best lesson to young people is control and grace under 'duress' .
Most of the few cars that pass are American relics of the Batista era, battered but much restored; they rattle and wheeze like beasts of burden driven forward under 'duress' .
The resignation of the President is not constitutional because he did that under 'duress' and threat.
There were a lot of stories around before the election that people were urged to vote under 'duress' .
Why, for example, were 400 people crammed under 'duress' onto a leaky boat that, even if it were seaworthy, could carry no more than 150 people in safety?
confessions extracted under 'duress'
confessions extracted under 'duress'
There was certainly nobody sent home under 'duress' .
In fact, the country now has no leverage on, or better negotiation position in comparison with its creditors, to force them acquiesce to such a strategy or accept it under 'duress' .
He told this correspondent that he did not concede that it was withdrawn under 'duress' , because of the agitation mounted by the communal organisations but described it as an appropriate step.
A brief review of the law indicates that a contract claimed to be entered under 'duress' or undue influence is voidable, not void; it may be ratified by subsequent conduct.
Most interrogators will tell you that torture or physical coercion produces only bad information - that a prisoner under 'duress' will say anything to end the pain.
Friends of the sisters admitted to the press that the girls only went to the wedding under 'duress' to support their father and left only when they thought it was polite to do so…
And a few bright shopkeepers had actually sussed that more people actually went into their shops to look, and then maybe buy, if they weren't being menaced under 'duress' to do so.
My wife was forced under extreme 'duress' to sign consent orders which are not in the best interests of the children.
At the end of the day, your Honours, the issue was whether or not a person who is not an employee can bring proceedings for the contravention of statutory 'duress' .
Today there is much overlap with the common law principle of 'duress' as this principle has subsequently been developed.
They admitted that they gave false evidence, but said that they were under 'duress' , having been threatened with violence by various men, one of whom was in the public gallery at the original trial.
If it were donkeys carrying the bags then animal welfare groups all over the world would be up in arms about the cruelty, yet we expect these caddies to lug the bag and to get yardages then make a club choice under 'duress' .
Some security firms have systems whereby staff can signal that they are acting under 'duress' by dropping pre-arranged and seemingly innocuous words into their conversation.
We all know the commitments were entered into under 'duress' , with teachers threatening to effectively shut down the system and block exams.
At the very least, they have been held for months in solitary confinement - treatment that constitutes a form of psychological 'duress' and is thus prohibited under the Geneva Conventions.
Though the church consistently backed the state under communism, it clearly did so under 'duress' and the threat of increased persecution.
Military experts point out that that code of conduct is a moral guide, not a legal guide, and that statements made under 'duress' or torture are rarely punished or reprimanded.
Well, the Romans executed him on the mountain, but they did it under 'duress' and the pressure of Jewish leaders, who hated him, not because of the cure he offered but because of the indictment.
It's excruciating to watch someone so young, who probably should be free of such pressure, clearly suffering under 'duress' .
They carry their load, working as a team, and I just know that they would not have been party to any ‘no air syndrome’, unless put under 'duress' by some malevolent fish.
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