Examples of duress

• This is not because they think her act is excused by duress, though they may believe that as well.

• Some of the women who remembered seeing other family members regularly recalled that this was out of duress rather than choice.

• He would, for a start, immediately recognize an attempt to grasp the nature of civic decency under peculiarly modern duress.

• Potential innocence of detainees is one of the strongest arguments against duress and other state-sanctioned violence one can think of.

• A close examination of one's own individual speaking voice became necessary, whether under duress or in relaxed 'chatting' mode.

• Duress is (in some cases) an excusing condition.

• But given the above, we established that if all of our conditions were fulfilled, the use of duress or coercion could be morally defended.

• The governor, however, made it clear that he had only done so under duress.

• Or would one have to ask legal experts to devise a list of duress means that could be acceptable?

• Characteristically, cultural change did not represent hispanisation, but rather a mixture of coexisting systems that often emerged without great disruption or duress.

• These tendencies were strongly associated with and rationalised in terms of women's perception of themselves as food providers under the duress of famine.

• A threatened or defeated people may switch to the traits of a new conquering culture, either voluntarily or under duress.

• As long as they are virtuous, they deserve protection, that is, they must not be put under duress in police custody.

• When it comes to preemptive state action, those potentially put under duress are - by definition - innocent.

• Some treatment plans are embraced with real enthusiasm and conviction, others may even be done with misgiving or under duress.