duress in English

noun
1
threats, violence, constraints, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better judgment.
confessions extracted under duress

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "duress" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "duress", or refer to the context using the word "duress" in the English Dictionary.

1. Duress?

2. The confession was obtained under duress.

3. Am I under duress?

4. Accomplices under duress shall go unpunished.

5. He signed the confession under duress .

6. Those who acted under duress shall go unpunished.

7. He thought her confession had been made under duress.

8. Would it now be regarded as economic duress?

9. No question of payment under duress was raised.

10. He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.

11. However, this confession was later found to be obtained under duress.

12. Therefore, their consent is tainted by duress and is invalid.

13. Under duress from a homicidal maniac named Malcolm Merlyn.

14. The human body, when in extreme duress, begins to shut down.

15. Williams said he agreed to the new settlement under duress.

16. The promise was obtained by duress on the part of her husband.

17. Of those purchased, some were sold under duress and others voluntarily.

18. Even if we ever get to sentencing, you were acting under duress.

19. Holmes J. considered that in these circumstances the payment was made under duress.

20. In other words, we are of opinion that the payment was made under duress.

21. Payments thus demanded colore officii are regarded by the law as being made under duress.

22. Under duress, with no prospect of aid from France or Britain, Carol complied.

23. Coercion or duress to marry can be a defense in a Bigamy case.

24. Ceded: to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress

25. Cede: to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.

26. The confession had been obtained under duress, and therefore could not be allowed as evidence.

27. Under duress it may flee and hide, but it can only do this occasionally.

28. Ceding: to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress

29. Judge Mershon ruled that the agreement was signed under duress, and was therefore null and void.

30. The words of a man confessing under duress, from drugs and a long festering guilt.

31. Under pain or duress, we do whatever we can to cope with the discomfort and justify its causes.

32. She told about the shame, and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress.

33. Defences such as duress or provocation may be analysed in the expectation of laying bare the rules which apply.

34. Under the duress of the moment, the act of crossing the threshold into this place had passed unnoticed.

35. But memory is highly selective, particularly within an organization that has weathered numerous crises and moments of extreme duress.

36. Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.

37. Moreover, the judge said, Fleiss had already suffered the unusual duress of undergoing simultaneous state and federal trials.

38. When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.

39. Force, pressure, obligation, constraint, urgency, coercion, duress, demand Students learn more when they are in classes out of choice rather than Compulsion.

40. As far as I am concerned, it is the only body that represents the prison officers, who work under great duress.

41. But that meant admitting guilt, admitting that I had acted unwillingly and not under duress and that I refused to do.

42. If the marriage was obtained by fraud, force, or duress, only the innocent party to the marriage can file for an Annulment

43. Recently scaled back under fiscal duress, the symphony has a 31-week winter and summer season and a full-time staff of

44. Section 287 also applies to oral Copulation with any person when it is accomplished by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear.

45. The chief criminals shall be punished without fail, those who are accomplices under duress shall go unpunished and those who perform deeds of merit shall be rewarded.

46. This Catchphrase was only something former actor Henry Pollard (Adam Scott) said under duress, repeating the popular slogan he once uttered on a beer commercial

47. The chief criminals shall be punished without fail, those who are accomplices under duress shall go unpunished and those who perform deeds of merIt'shall be rewarded.

48. Coercion noun force, pressure, threats, bullying, constraint, intimidation, compulsion, duress, browbeating, strong-arm tactics (informal) It was vital that the elections should be free of Coercion or intimidation

49. One author noted: “Many civilizations believed in a primordial paradise that was characterized by perfection, freedom, peace, happiness, abundance, and the absence of duress, tensions, and conflicts. . . .

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