duress Definition In English

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Examples of duress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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