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"duress" Definitions
  1. threats or force that are used to make somebody do something

815 Sentences With "duress"

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"That was taken under duress, extreme duress, at that date," Boe said.
Even more so when the city is under some duress.
However, they tend to take advantage of resources under duress.
Barr performs the act of apologizing — but only under duress.
India has maintained that the recording was made under duress.
READ: Hong Kong's trade in banned books Confession under duress?
No one would have given it up unless under duress.
He said he had admitted to the killings under duress.
And the clawback decision came from a board under duress.
Under duress, Macmillan became a reluctant aspirant to European status.
These whales end up in extreme duress; stress hormones spike.
Arabs left, sometimes under duress, often of their own accord.
Maintaining control, even under duress, is what sets them apart.
"Either measure would result in extreme economic duress," she added.
Do folks feel like they're talking to us under duress?
Arya is not aware that Sansa wrote this note under duress.
Now, that's tough, because when you're directing, it's under such duress.
He even made an ill-advised video chronicling his mental duress.
What did it mean to love under conditions of such duress?
In the past, defectors have returned to the country under duress.
It is not known whether Warmbier made the admission under duress.
Under duress, some victims sent explicit images and videos to Kil.
It was not clear whether the apology was obtained under duress.
Rights groups say the videos were false confessions recorded under duress.
Perhaps teenagers who are under emotional duress gravitate toward their phones.
Reuters spoke with six Burundians who said they paid under duress.
Ukraine had argued that the debt was taken out under duress.
Be cool under duress, which is a very key aesthetic: coolness.
His right-wing supporters are furious that Israel is negotiating under duress.
Facing widespread protests, Mr. Nasheed stepped down from the presidency under duress.
Confessions, often made under duress, form the basis of most criminal prosecutions.
So even though I've released a black bag, it was under duress.
The gunman admitted shooting Ko Ni, but says he acted under duress.
If Laura really feared for her life, had she signed under duress?
It's unclear if the press conference and confession were given under duress.
She undertook her first trip to Jamaica, her mother's birthplace, under duress.
Of wanting to call women who love me when I'm in duress.
Young men in Asia and Africa often joined the army under duress.
They say elected chiefs signed on to the pipeline project under duress.
Daniel Goldman: It is certainly a ... Duress would be a good word.
Jozef bought land from Walter Younger, during a period of financial duress.
Deyo complied with the request, working through the domain transfer process under duress.
They believe American industry passed on knowledge entirely under duress and without recompense.
Others were doubtless stolen or locals bamboozled or persuaded to sell under duress.
Chang has long been aesthetically interested in situations of bodily discomfort and duress.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly ruled out negotiating under sanctions duress with Washington.
She agrees, under duress, because now they have an alternative to endless war.
"I do think that technology is under duress a bit now," he said.
The girl's mother publicly declared that that the testimony was obtained under duress.
The scene we saw showed no signs that Hedges was speaking under duress.
He was purported to have been recruited under duress by Russian security agents.
In custody, she claimed that all of her crimes were committed under duress.
You had to take them as they were: distracted, confused, irrational under duress.
In "Scandal," at 9, Olivia deals with some Secret Service agents under duress.
With unpredictable weather conditions, India's monsoon-dependent agricultural practice is increasingly under duress.
Their conversations were brief, and Marelyn said little, adding to Ms. Pulex's duress.
But at every step, he has seemed like a leader acting under duress.
And wow, what amazing works they were able to create under such duress.
Her lawyers have told reporters she says she withdrew her accusation under duress.
Storytelling under duress has long been the motor of Mr. Walsh's finest work.
That he was under duress is clear, although it's not clear from whom.
The internal drama comes as Planned Parenthood is increasingly under external political duress.
Recently, bullion has underperformed markedly when compared to other periods of market duress.
Question: One could almost say it's similar to a hostage testifying under duress.
Powell was a prolific critic, and even his book reviews came under duress.
If the Garden provided Ball any more duress, he did not show it.
"Fierce Kingdom" is a portrait of a mind at work under macabre duress.
Reuters was unable to establish whether he had made his statement under duress.
The program used torture techniques like waterboarding to extract intelligence information under duress.
Rights groups said that the lawmaker was likely under duress when he was recorded.
"This is so not my holiday, I am doing this under duress," she said.
Ukrainians say the 1686 pronouncement was made under duress and they challenge its legitimacy.
Slavery doesn't always involve moving people long distances under duress, but it often does.
De Lima denied knowing him and said his testimony was at gunpoint, under duress.
The Iranian regime is already exhibiting signs of duress from the sanctions reimposition alone.
They are evacuating under duress and then bombing positions so nobody can seize them.
It was, and continues to be, that information garnered under extreme duress is unreliable.
It showed its reputation as a strong, stable supplier, even in times of duress.
How else to make visible that which is eroding under the duress of destruction?
Dear Ms. Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty, I write this under extreme duress and mental exhaustion.
According to the Justice Center's interviews, these women were working and living under duress.
Military service, especially under the extreme duress of combat and imprisonment, is certainly noble.
But it's often a choice made under duress, and the consequences can be dire.
The first tree, under duress and in the face of cold weather, had none.
It's so much easier when you don't look for things to cut under duress.
Under duress, the pair sold Pablo Picasso's masterwork "The Actor" for $12,000 in 1938.
That would include surveillance cameras, duress buttons, alarm systems and shatter-resistant window film.
People pretended that they went to these parties only under duress of some sort.
He was under duress much of the game from the stout Central Michigan defense.
But rights groups say the questioning is usually scripted and carried out under duress.
In the past six years, more than 70 such facilities have closed, citing financial duress.
In the court proceedings, they said that they were tortured, the confessions made under duress.
Josh: I learned the term from [Heaven Knows What and Good Time actor] Buddy Duress.
It was unclear when the video was made, or whether the men appeared under duress.
However, supporters and some family members said the men's public statements were made under duress.
Pro-opposition journalist Musa Omar said that Daqneesh was speaking to the cameras under duress.
According to the Times of Malta, authorities were aware that the arch was under duress.
Because we -- we have to be sure that nobody is coerced, nobody is under duress.
Blithely irresponsible tech companies react to extremist users only under legal duress and public shaming.
Prosecutors in China almost always secure a conviction, and confessions are often made under duress.
I understand the impulse to marvel at Mr. Mandela's civility and eloquence, even under duress.
But many hospitals, especially in low-income and rural areas, are already under financial duress.
It attests to vitality under duress: "There are amazing examples of self-sufficiency," she said.
Appears corporate AMT provision probably raises >$300B, not $0003B JCT estimated under duress Fri night.
The Fed is not the only government entity that thinks bank directors are under duress.
The headquarters employees have been working under duress for the last five to ten years.
They have to prove also that they're in duress because of those years of service.
Victims are told, often under duress, to recruit family and friends or borrow money from them.
It's about who we are as human beings, and the moral choices we make under duress.
In the meantime, the private sector, which creates four out of five jobs, is under duress.
During his trial, Ntamuhanga accused police of detaining him illegally and extracting a confession under duress.
Most of it was looted, stolen, bought under duress or borrowed and never returned, they said.
Meanwhile, the Trump high-dollar fund-raising operation is showing signs of duress, people here say.
After all, tardigrades don't need to be losing cells when they're under duress, like drying out.
Supporting performances by young actress Taliah Webster and Safdie brothers' favorite Buddy Duress are similarly triumphant.
It was unclear when the video was made, or whether the two men appeared under duress.
Victims are instructed, often under duress, to recruit friends and family or borrow money from them.
Atta's family says he signed a confession under duress, and he was questioned without a lawyer.
Women are under financial duress even as our purchasing power is needed to fuel our economy.
"Greed, not duress" had led him to a courtroom, a prosecutor, Emil J. Bove III, said.
Sometimes this was under duress, but often no overt threat was needed: women understood the perils.
Under what appeared to be duress, Oliver posted to his Soundcloud an entire LP, slow`motion.
As it often happens during times of duress, many evacuated communities are being targeted by looters.
This is obviously not great timing for Yahoo, since it is already under massive financial duress.
"Even under extreme duress, we would keep pubs open," Martin said on a call with media.
Now they are united in soggy duress, figuring out what they can rescue from flooded homes.
She now says she made the denials under duress and out of fear for her safety.
Iran, under severe economic duress from punishing U.S. sanctions put in place by Trump, denied responsibility.
Cantlie was used by the terror group in over a dozen propaganda videos, apparently under duress.
For investors, these corporate maneuvers are just another indication that the stock market is operating under duress.
The courts held lingering concerns that Oberlander may have only been party to Ek 10a under duress.
She told them she was made to sign a confession under duress -- though its contents are unknown.
" In a 2015 divorce hearing, Howard's lawyer argued that he signed their spousal support agreement "under duress.
Rich countries can and must do more to help those beset by war, persecution or economic duress.
Two years ago, Terrence convinced the court he'd been forced to sign their marital settlement under duress.
Both Mannings eventually wrote false witness statements under duress to avoid going to jail, the lawsuit states.
It was not clear whether Lee was speaking under duress, though some commentators believe this was likely.
Tibetan culture may be under duress, but adoration of the Dalai Lama shows no sign of diminishing.
"They want officials and their families to be under duress," and unable to focus on their jobs.
His captors parade him in front of cameras to say, under duress, things he obviously doesn't believe.
It's unclear if the sailor was coerced or under duress, or if the video had been manipulated.
Mr. Szalay's subject in "All That Man Is" — the title is deeply ironic — is masculinity under duress.
I love the scene above because you know we're all under a bit of duress these days.
She said democracy itself was under duress because avenues of communication with the electorate had been compromised.
Finally, those seeking access will have to enter a code proving that they are not under duress.
His collection of subtly linked short stories — the title is deeply ironic — is about masculinity under duress.
This can happen through physical, emotional or financial duress, deception or the use of force and threats.
Simpson followed it up with a drive through traffic and basket under duress, punctuating Michigan's dominant day.
Nor was she a brave sufferer, with an unsupportive family, whose works were produced under daily duress.
Will financial ruin and her imminent due date make Lindsay's sister the next to crack from emotional duress?
The teens confessed to the crime under duress — including intense interrogation without access to food, water, or sleep.
"So, you've got some pretty large pieces of (the) business under duress," Needham & Co analyst Alex Henderson said.
Because let's face it—Ticketmaster, Telecharge, and other sites are notoriously bad and prone to crashing under duress.
When Friedman joins the case — first under duress, then with increasing enthusiasm — he becomes a target as well.
He has denied the accusations and reportedly says that he was forced to give a confession under duress.
The federal government's entire climate-science enterprise, much of it linked to NASA's satellite research, is under duress.
We read to them until 7:30, and then they go to their rooms for bed under duress.
Martin left the team abruptly and later said that he was under psychological duress and had considered suicide.
" In Missouri, for example, "Assent does not constitute consent if it is induced by force, duress or deception.
He was under duress all day because of the relentless Eagles pass rush and was sacked four times.
Six works in the collection have been definitively identified as plundered by the Nazis or sold under duress.
It refers to important elements of a scene or situation that, viewed under duress, can easily go unnoticed.
David Turpin also was charged with a lewd act on a child by force or fear of duress.
As so, why prove duress when you can just point to the agreement and allege it wasn't signed?
They've been amazingly supportive through this period of time, even under financial duress," he said on "Closing Bell.
Although such heroes make their journeys under duress, fugitive-slave stories are also a form of travel narrative.
But he said that duress is usually considered to be something physical, like being locked in a basement.
During her divorce, her husband ambushed her with 100-page Marital Separation Agreement that she signed under duress.
Whose skin gets shown and under what forms of medical duress are clearly at issue in the work.
Medical charities operating in opposition-held parts of Syria have dismissed those statements as propaganda given under duress.
"Thus, although the Leffmanns felt economic pressure during the undeniably horrific circumstances of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, that pressure, when not caused by the counterparties to the transaction (or the defendant) where the duress is alleged, is insufficient to prove duress with respect to the transaction," Judge Preska wrote.
He also said that both global anti-doping body WADA and the International Olympic Committee were working under duress.
It implies that most such treasures were taken "by theft, looting, spoils [of war], trickery and sales under duress".
Rauner said the board has the legal authority to block borrowings by districts found to be in financial duress.
Mail volumes are declining, which means fewer deliveries per stop, and thus even lower efficiency and more financial duress.
MACCALLUM: You know, it&aposs very clear that he was under mental duress and how could he not be?
The association claims to have verified at least 120 cases in which men have died under duress in prison.
But why can't I have an "dump" password that lets me blow up certain data when I'm under duress?
Three of the main legs of globalization: immigration, trade and capital mobility are all under varying degrees of duress.
Nowadays he teaches the board of directors at big corporations how to protect themselves from criminal duress and crises.
The translation was later independently corroborated by CNN, but it's impossible to say if Kim was speaking under duress.
"Any time that I'm under a lot of duress, I started realizing that I clench my stomach," Yu said.
The trial of the two accused young men was merely for show, predicated on confessions made under extreme duress.
I humbly add to his argument the fact that gifts lose their emotional value when they're purchased under duress.
These include debt issued by the city of Chicago and Puerto Rico, both of which are under significant duress.
They said their compatriots were tricked by the restaurant owner, but it's unclear if they were speaking under duress.
On the trip I learned under duress that humans can survive for weeks on a diet of beef jerky.
The Bhagavad GitaI think about Arjuna a lot because my job seems to be always making decisions under duress.
He smacked reflex winners even off Wawrinka overheads, tracked down sharply angled groundstrokes and stayed creative under great duress.
Tim Main, a respected banker who advised financial companies, was under duress from a divorce, according to these associates.
Federer stressed the importance of staying positive under duress and told Zverev he could turn his downbeat season around.
Under duress, Berezovsky fled to England, where he hardened into a strident, although not always reliable, critic of Putin.
Americans as a whole continue to admire and celebrate Israel's success under duress and to recognize our shared values.
"A lot of people have talked to me about settling under duress — they're bullied into accepting settlements," she said.
"A lot of people have talked to me about settling under duress — they're bullied into accepting settlements," she said.
She maintained that she had recanted her accusation under duress from police, during persistent questioning without a lawyer present.
Some sort of duress — physical or psychological — is apparent, and in both, the emotions that the eyes convey are ambiguous.
Which, considering how the network has treated her over the past few months, speaks volumes about her character under duress.
"We can't rule out that it was made under duress," William Nee, Amnesty International's China researcher, told the Associated Press.
But he added that the arguments on duress and countermeasures both concerned international law — which the court could not consider.
I came back under great duress and stress, and thought I was doing the job I was hired to do.
Those British service members were paraded before then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and critics said their apologies were extracted under duress.
The British service members were paraded before then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and critics said their apologies were extracted under duress.
The company released the information under some duress, prodded by accusations that it was suppressing reports from conservative news outlets.
The confession and forgiveness we want to fill the room do not spring up more naturally in extremis, under duress.
" According to John Tytell's 1995 book, "The Living Theater," the winter of 1964-65 was a period of "great duress.
The negotiations were conducted under conditions of extreme duress: We were once kept at the office overnight, from 5 p.m.
David Turpin was also charged with a lewd act on a child by force or fear of duress, Hestrin said.
It's unclear if the sailor was coerced or under duress, or if the video had been manipulated in any way.
Instead, the show depicts the natural drama of family life and how one American family holds itself together under duress.
The woman maintained that she had recanted her accusation under duress from police during persistent questioning without a lawyer present.
Anyone confronted with the words brain tumor knows the fear and bewilderment associated with learning a new language under duress.
" While representatives of Mauritius agreed to the separation at the time, the current government claim they did so under "duress.
And in France, where the government has been struggling with mass public protests over economic duress, growth hit 0.3 percent.
As a result, evidence from jailhouse informants is now viewed with more skepticism, as is any confession obtained under duress.
Plants are shutting down under economic duress, and in some states and countries carbon emissions are rising as a result.
Qureiris has denied the charges and said that the confessions, which the prosecution has largely relied on, were obtained under duress.
The bad news is that it reserved such a powerful tool for the CEO, and admitted to it only under duress.
Beijing had been placed under "extreme duress" by the ­intensified US-Philippine cooperation and impending ruling by The Hague, Jin said.
The lawsuit, which has yet to be decided, claims that the guarantees were extracted under duress and should not be binding.
The Australian comedian poked fun at the actors by making it look like their apology video was actually filmed under duress.
"I won't be used by them anymore," Wang says in the video, which experts say may have been made under duress.
However, Oduya's attempted backhand clearance under duress was intercepted by Getzlaf, who delivered the equalizer despite not striking the puck cleanly.
It survived for various reasons but the primary one is that innovations created under duress are the ones that usually stick.
Another week on Game of Thrones, another Stark reunion — except this one comes under much more duress than the last one.
Critics have warned of trial by media and said it was important to examine whether the confessions were obtained under duress.
Kim's claims were made in the presence of North Korean officials and CNN cannot determine whether they were made under duress.
It doesn't apply to this specific situation, but in some duress situations, I'd probably rather just unlock my phone or whatever.
The theater's Yelp page is riddled with five-star reviews that I assume must either be fake or written under duress.
Quarterback C.J. Beathard was under duress from the get-go versus the Cowboys, losing two fumbles and getting sacked five times.
Operating under duress all day, Rivers completed only 25 of 51 passes for 331 yards and three scores with an interception.
Our criminal justice system has long recognized this relationship between coercion and legal guilt, in the form of the duress defense.
His footwork as a thrower was an inconsistent mess, and it led to accuracy problems especially when he was under duress.
All your skills are more under duress because the passes are longer, you have to be more accurate with your tackling.
Unfortunately, a reported 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or come under financial duress just two years after retirement.
Last week, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said his government had evidence that Lee was "removed from Hong Kong under duress".
Blount, under duress most of the game, completed 17 of 24 passes for 137 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
It is a role that crops up usually under regulatory and legal duress, but Mr. Trump could voluntarily pay for it.
Changing the world It is not only domestic political structures that are being put under duress by this most abnormal presidency.
The woman maintained that she had recanted her accusation only under duress from police, during persistent questioning without a lawyer present.
Xi has no need to open another trade war front with President Donald Trump, so Lam – probably under duress – abandoned the idea.
Even after watching the scene several times, I'm not 100 percent certain what exactly Natalie is confessing to having done under duress.
Kim's January claims were made in the presence of North Korean officials, and CNN cannot determine whether they were made under duress.
In duress, the RBA does have a tried and tested option should the housing market really collapse and bank stress levels elevate.
That's a claim that someone could say I was under duress when I sold this; I didn't know what I was doing.
Economic duress is another dampener: it is no coincidence that the slowdown in young Americans' sex lives began during the great recession.
When a worker signs a contract with an arbitration agreement, there is no inherent "fraud or duress" that would render it unenforceable.
But even the GOAT (the "Greatest Of All Time", as Mr Federer's fans call him) has been known to bray under duress.
Victims are followed around the clock and are instructed, often under duress, to recruit friends and family or borrow money from them.
Before Boehner surrendered, as Trump did under duress last week, his right wing kept insisting that President Barack Obama destroy Obamacare, too.
While "we voted and were not under any form of duress," she pointed to a number of irregularities with the election process.
All of the other maps have the distinct feeling of having been abandoned in a moment of duress before you showed up.
If it isn't addressed, it will only get worse, infecting more and more computers and creating both financial harm and emotional duress.
The two men signed consent forms for the exams and H.I.V. tests; they have since claimed that they did so under duress.
David Turpin has additionally been charged with at least one count of a lewd act upon a child by force or duress.
It is often hired by insurance companies and companies in duress, perhaps facing lawsuits and the prospect of monstrous recalls and payouts.
Are we glad when big corporations make these choices, often under pressure and duress, which happen to coincide with the public good?
In fact, one of the items was so good, I might even buy it again (I swear, I am not under duress).
To be a Jew according to this vision is to belong to a bounded group that admits the other only under duress.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, some Republicans began fashioning plans in case Mr. Trump quit the race, on his own or under duress.
Mann's images are murky, spooked, painterly, expressionistic; they seem as much portraits of the psyche under duress as documents of actual places.
That meant lots of memes to express duress, confusion, happiness, and unadulterated anger (towards Jay Z and Becky with the "good hair").
The published dossier included an allegation that Gubarev and his company had, under duress by Russian intelligence, helped hack the Democratic Party.
More important is its provenance, the winding routes it took to get here, and whether it was looted or sold under duress.
Under dire financial duress, many have put extraordinary demands on beat writers to produce heavy volumes of content, often without wage increases.
Lebanese authorities have refused to accept Hariri's resignation until he accounts for his reasons in person, believing it was made under duress.
To be able to create an identity under duress is the defining feature of an African aesthetic, even an African-American aesthetic.
He died, yet again under financial duress, in 1918 just months before the Armistice after suffering years of an excruciating rectal cancer.
Ms. Wagner's tears might have been happy ones if she and Mr. Train were making the trip willingly rather than under duress.
Solutions discussed at a recent conference included hiring security, setting up "duress wallets" to fool hostage takers, and keeping Bitcoin fortunes secret.
But his appearance immediately drew skepticism from human rights activists, who said it bore the hallmarks of a staged confession under duress.
" As Mr. Goldsman asked: "All those associations with 'to boldly go' — how do we maintain those under the greatest kinds of duress?
Nearly 80% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or come under financial duress just two years after retiring from the league.
"I don't think Ben was really under duress too much, and I wasn't hit in the backfield too many times," Bell said.
Medical experts testified in Topp's resentencing that he was a child under duress and is not beyond the ability to be rehabilitated.
It may sound sinister, but if one party can prove they signed the contract under duress, it can become null and void.
Thug was obviously under a lot of duress while making this project, but what was the team's goal for On The Rvn?
"Kim's claims were made in the presence of North Korean officials and CNN cannot determine whether they were made under duress," Ripley adds.
David is additionally charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear or duress.
David was also charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear, or duress.
Global stocks have been under duress for a week amid looming uncertainty about the British vote and a focus on central bank policy.
David was additionally charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear or duress.
Unlike "Life and Fate", written after Stalin's death in the hope of greater freedom, Grossman drafted parts of the earlier book under duress.
Under duress, in June Glencore wrote off $22012bn it loaned to a joint venture with a government-owned miner, in exchange for equity.
In which warped universe is it legitimate to claim to assist women -- in this case presumed to be under duress -- by criminalizing them?
In 2011 it levied a £100,000 fine on an Iranian channel that had broadcast an interview with an imprisoned journalist conducted under duress.
Mr Nasheed resigned in 2012 (under duress, he says), and then lost the subsequent presidential election to Abdulla Yameen, Mr Gayoom's half-brother.
However, they claimed they had been forced to confess under duress and said the investigators had deprived them of food, water and sleep.
It appears to be someone who is not under duress or force and not someone who is involved in such a brutal crime.
It clanked open 3-pointers, failed to convert drives, couldn't find the range under duress and also bricked free throw after free throw.
David is also charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear, or duress.
The interview was conducted in the presence of North Korean officials, so CNN could not determine whether Kim's comments were made under duress.
In early October, Konopka requested an injunction from the court in hopes of continuing her practice, saying she surrendered her license under duress.
Six months later, the regime claimed he had confessed to espionage charges, though it's not clear whether he made those statements under duress.
This time around, they have some evidence: Lee's confession tape, which she recorded under duress while being held captive at the Polks' growhouse.
Giving women's soccer a boost was a big part of Infantino's campaign platform, and there has been structural change under duress as well.
This practice brings with it significant emotional duress, time investment and financial penalties — all of which divert meaningful resources from revenue-driving activities.
When you spend a lot of time in bed, whether for pleasure or under duress, the whole world—yourself included—considers it lazy.
They break you down with the intake process, and you got guys coppin' out to plea deals, at the behest of duress, really.
The country's under a lot of duress right now, and so great art is going to be produced, because people need an outlet.
The CBP has only issued four orders to seize 50 shipments it suspected contained goods made under duress since the law was passed.
But reflect for a moment on the character he plays, who must do his own self-reflection on the fly and under duress.
There were 113 or 211 candidates on the field in 211, there were only two candidates that saw the economic desperation and duress.
The impasse at which Britain now finds itself — with an agreement that no one wants to support except under duress — was entirely predictable.
Its leaders, analysts say, are determined not to capitulate to what they view as economic and psychological warfare, or to negotiate under duress.
In 1990, he was falsely convicted of the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl following a confession extracted under duress.
In Edinburgh, she had become ensnared in some tricky situations involving marriage proposals that were refused, then accepted under duress, then refused again.
Can Djokovic, whose service speeds have not been as high here as they were at Wimbledon, continue to find the corners under duress?
Cattle and goats used to feed federal troops have also been forfeited in significant numbers by the tribespeople under duress and without compensation.
CNN can't independently verify the accounts of these people or whether they were speaking under duress due to the heavy censorship in Xinjiang.
One video showed a U.S. sailor apologizing and calling it a mistake, but it is not clear whether it was recorded under duress.
The company was paying higher royalties "under duress" and would "look at any arbitration route... if it becomes unsustainable for us", Glasenberg said.
Alex Gerbi, a partner at the firm representing Kiev in the case, said Ukraine would argue that the debt was incurred under duress.
She has worked with a mental coach regularly for the past year, and it has given her a new perspective under tennis duress.
The BIA ruled that yes, exceptions can be made for people acting under duress, although it decided this case didn't meet that threshold.
The police are concerned that Gypsy was brought into the house under duress, but both parents say that Gypsy came into the house willingly.
"There are giant hurdles you have to get past under duress and in seconds in order to get out of that helicopter," he says.
There's this thing where, not only did these women have to do their job but they also have to do their job under duress.
Given that level of duress, it's fair to wonder whether it couldn't be a factor in workers' likelihood to start believing in conspiracy theories.
Heather claims she signed the custody agreement under duress, claiming he was holding their daughter hostage until she put pen to paper and signed.
States and US territories typically cover 25% of disaster response costs, but Puerto Rico's economy was already under extreme duress prior to the hurricane.
That has prompted international criticism that the admissions could be made under duress and that the practice violates China's own laws on due process.
"Our economy, which is under duress and it's been like that for some time - has not helped," Hadebe added, citing falling demand from mines.
David was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear or duress.
David Turpin was also charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear, or duress.
It's unclear in the end whether the characters have learned anything, and whether connections made under duress have become real or calcified into habit.
Sri Lanka's economy is already under duress — foreign exchange reserves have been sliding, pressuring the local currency — amid broader problems in global emerging markets.
Many commentators believe that the letter was written under duress, however, and that it hinted at the abnormality of his crossing into the mainland.
Many of the adults drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid under duress, even at gunpoint, and two who refused to do so were shot.
"Our economy, which is under duress – and it's been like that for some time - has not helped," Hadebe added, citing falling demand from mines.
Yet, during Halloween, this behavior is not only tolerated, but encouraged, often under duress from children forcing a "trick-or-treat" ultimatum onto adults.
But these steps are just not significant enough to change the prevailing declining direction of either sector, and especially the plants under economic duress.
Three years ago the board, under duress, agreed to allow owners to sublet their apartments for up to two years until the market rebounded.
The company was on tour in Saratoga Springs, and I noticed a lot of our dancers were clearly in some type of emotional duress.
The institution was "under duress," said Patrick Albano of Aaron Galleries, an art dealer from Illinois whom Ms. O'Leary asked to broker the sale.
The same qualities he praises boxing for instilling in people—how to operate under duress and overcome oneself—have been instrumental to his survival.
He later signed a confession, likely under duress, saying that he drank heavily on the job and "broke the rules" of the Communist Party.
They will instead focus on proving mitigating circumstances, such as extreme mental duress, that could persuade a single juror to block a death sentence.
Ruth Wilson has made a habit of playing women defined by their determination and obstinacy under duress, and Alison is right in that wheelhouse.
But it would be foolish to underestimate the companies' ability to adapt under duress and to ultimately profit, no matter who is in power.
About 100,000 objects in France were looted by the Nazis or sold under duress and transferred to Germany, according to estimates by French authorities.
That would be a political gamble in its own right, of course, and one that the Trump White House will take only under duress.
Under duress from hunger, anti-government protests have raged in some of the poorest parts of Caracas -- and been met with swift police action.
Our roles and identities shift from one to the next, in large part because the spaces ask different things of us — sometimes under duress.
Morrison conceived the idea for "Paradise" after researching the all-black towns in Oklahoma that formed when newly freed men left plantations under duress.
To save lives, especially in urban, minority-rich environments, we must train officers to understand how the brain responds in conditions of deadly duress.
Energy companies, hampered by slumping oil prices, and retail borrowers, adjusting to a shift in consumer spending habits, are expected to face the most duress.
Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that offers emotional support through text messaging, has spent four years connecting people in extreme emotional duress with online counselors.
It&aposs an astonishing saga, but not the first time people under stress or duress have gone to the extreme of faking their own deaths.
In a video for her YouTube channel, the Spider-Man: Homecoming star watched videos of her 13-year-old self, which caused some understandable duress.
Several dishes on the winter menu take advantage of things that many of us were once made to eat under duress: carrots, cauliflower, brussels sprouts.
He's doing the best he can bagging while under this duress, but eventually lets 'I'm doing the best I can, man' out under his breath.
The officers told her they needed to make sure she wasn't declining help under duress, so they insisted on coming in and speaking with her.
It's a disgusting place where they take terminally ill people and perform gross experiments on them to test their limits under extreme duress and pain.
Large mining projects often require state and federal government approval, especially if threatened species and their habitats are placed under duress by the proposed operation.
Medical aid groups and the White Helmets rescue organization have said such statements - already aired on state television in recent days - were made under duress.
Taqiyya is an Islamic precept that permits Muslims, when in danger or under duress, to conceal their true beliefs, breaking the usual injunction against lying.
It appears to be time for yet another under-duress look at change, which has become the rule in tennis throughout this year of upheaval.
They study the few plants that are growing healthily under duress in a given area, archiving data about their DNA and what's in their microbiome.
His topic is masculinity under duress, and our critic Dwight Garner says his realistic prose delivers a sense of deep power held slightly in reserve.
During this time, Mohammed confessed to several potential attacks that he later retracted, according to the Times report, later stating that he lied under duress.
The photograph illuminates a nearly subliminal moment of antiblackness masquerading as minstrelsy, masquerading as carefree (careless) communal play-acting, masquerading as jubilation under duress (a.k.a.
The distinction is significant because, at the time, California law narrowly defined rape as "an act of sexual intercourse" under duress or lack of consent.
The opposition rejected that ruling, arguing it was made under duress, with many of its supporters refusing to surrender what they consider a stolen election.
While his opponents try and figure out how to keep their campaigns energized under these highly unusual circumstances, the president can demonstrate leadership under duress.
It was a clear admission, even if offered under duress and after the option to lie had vanished, and even if still splitting some hairs.
A confession is taken as an acknowledgment of guilt, but, in a legal framework, it can be a script written for you, confirmed under duress.
Somebody's been writing some non-working code that they're hoping to deploy under duress… Also no pep 8, but hey, what are ya gonna do?
People presume that it is akin to picking up and leaving your home in the middle of the night under great duress, never to return.
Hyman tied the score 69 seconds later, stuffing home his second rebound attempt after Matthews brilliantly flicked the puck toward the net while under duress.
We were subjected to a battery of psychological and intelligence assessments designed to test our problem-solving skills while under physical duress and no sleep.
It's taken nearly a century for his later artworks, the ones often distributed under duress, to start resurfacing in public collections or on the market.
The memos, written by a retired British spy, Christopher Steele, also claimed that Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev assisted the cyberattacks "under duress" from Russian intelligence.
It is difficult to imagine how Tehran would take European demands for changing the deal seriously when those players know the demands come under duress.
Medical charities operating in opposition-held parts of Syria have dismissed those statements as propaganda, given under duress now that government forces control the town.
Maybe the court would find that the abuse put the victim under duress when the contract was originally signed, which would make the contract invalid.
Some Florentines felt obligated to help abandoned infants before they reached the Piazza del Limbo, by offering mothers who were clearly under duress an alternative.
He did even that under great and salty duress; the money arrived in one chunk, directed to a charity called the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Examples include consuming shots equating to one's age, beer pong, dares, 'century club,' or any other activities involving the consumption of alcohol under duress or encouragement.
They make, perhaps, poor decisions on the spot under that pressure and duress, and they're willing to sign anything to get out of that difficult situation.
Under duress but without any influence from the coaching staff or the athletic trainer, Andrew decided to have his hair cut rather than forfeit the match.
"Even a minor sign of economic duress could jeopardise his objective of winning in the first round," says Sinan Ulgen of Carnegie Europe, a think-tank.
But since his odd televised resignation on November 123th, perhaps under some form of duress in Saudi Arabia, Mr Hariri (pictured) has seen his popularity rise.
Dietl told the WSJ that he had an investigator eavesdrop on Mackris' conversations in an effort to show she wasn't "under duress" from her alleged harassment.
In the summons, which was filed with a court in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, Brown alleged that he sold his 19.12 percent stake under duress in 2012.
David Turpin has also been charged with one count of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force or duress.
Quarterback Jake Fromm passed for 212 yards and three touchdowns but was intercepted once, sacked twice and was under constant duress from the Texas pass rush.
Major departures from the precedents of disclosure and vetting are just part of the story as to why the institutions of government are already under duress.
Interior Minister Enrique Degenhart, who signed the deal in Washington, and Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel on Monday denied that Guatemala had reached the agreement under duress.
Critics are protesting that his move reveals political shallowness, subverts the justice system and sends a message to aides under duress from special counsel Robert Mueller.
The full spectrum of art and culture is under duress in many countries because words and images are powerful and when there is distress, repression follows.
The country's main opposition, the National Super Alliance (NASA), described the Supreme Court's ruling Monday as a "decision taken under duress," in a statement released Monday.
I feel bad about having said certain things under duress and pain and things that I haven't resolved privately and that's all I want to do.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Prince Mohammed had approved interrogating or even forcing Mr. Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia under duress.
But when I find her extra destabilized, under exceptional duress and particularly inconsolable, they have a way of coming together that somehow acts like a tranquilizer.
Japanese courts have a conviction rate close to 100 percent, and defendants in the majority of cases confess to their crimes, sometimes under duress from prosecutors.
But Ali was as much the subject as he was the artist: an entire life played out on film in moments of both triumph and duress.
So a longing suffuses the festival, a sense among natives that they are re-embracing the progeny of people who departed long ago, often under duress.
Human rights groups allege the trial was unfair, saying the defendants' confessions were extracted under duress and that some did not have lawyers present in court.
We assess that Putin's anti-US rhetoric will increase until voting occurs, as he tries to paint the United States as weak, chaotic and under duress.
While it has been impossible to verify whether these televised confessions were made under duress, the practice has drawn concern from rights groups and Western capitals.
It has also attempted to alter the law on the right to a bond hearing, duress exceptions and access to asylum for victims of domestic violence.
The German government team studying the Gurlitt works has identified five that were looted or sold under duress, and another 153 that it suspects were looted.
That indicates Iran or one of its proxies aimed to signal it could stunt global trade and the world economy in unexpected ways and under duress.
He was reportedly detained by Russia-backed separatists in east Ukraine and confessed to espionage charges on a Russian state-run TV channel while under obvious duress.
At a press conference in London on November 23rd Mr Humphrey, now released and living in Britain, said that the confession was scripted and filmed under duress.
Hadid said the death penalty was "problematic because in some cases confessions in Jordan were extracted under torture or duress", echoing widespread complaints by human rights activists.
Malaysia is fighting human trafficking with programs to identify and prevent trafficking, prosecute those responsible, and by protecting those who are brought to our country under duress.
In these moments, on my way out the door, under great duress and distress, I reach for something like Captain Blankenship's Mer[man] Sea Salt Hair Spray.
In an acute embarrassment for the British government, the service members were paraded before then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and critics said their apologies were extracted under duress.
Two of his more than 40 cell mates were killed that way, he said, after they confessed under duress to directing air strikes against Islamic State fighters.
Meghan's training will include mastering micro-expressions, key words and other signals to let either her family or law enforcement know if she's under duress from captors.
If Turkey can provide solid evidence against Mr Gulen that was not collected under duress, he should be extradited; if not, then he should remain in Pennsylvania.
It's a letter Sansa sent to her family under duress, and partially at Littlefinger's own urging, while she and Ned were Cersei's prisoners back in season one.
But momentum builds once the lights turn dusky and Ms. Lafferty rolls feverishly on the floor or settles into positions that reveal the physical duress of stillness.
"If it determined that any school district was in financial duress, the state board has the right, the legal authority, to block any debt offerings," Rauner said.
The work is extraordinarily difficult — an alchemy of physics and medicine that has begun to yield insights into the human body under the great duress of battle.
There is hardly a shortage of buddy movies about mismatched men bonding under duress, but films that chart the emotional weather of everyday male friendship are rare.
One official had privately expressed misgivings about the crackdown — and his confession, likely signed under duress, was circulated among the Communist Party as a warning to others.
"That has to be amended because trafficking can be by way of emotional duress, it can be psychological," said Bon, formerly a government-appointed human rights envoy.
An estimated 100,000 objects in France alone were looted by the Nazis or sold under duress and transferred to Germany — paintings, but also drawings, sculptures and antiquities.
"Unless somebody does this, there won't be a debate about how egregious these agreements are and the amount of duress that victims are put under," she said.
The A.C.L.U. cited several examples of detained parents who were confronted with documents to sign without understanding their content, and who sometimes did so under emotional duress.
They were arrested almost two weeks after the bodies were found and originally confessed, only to later recant, saying their admissions of guilt were made under duress.
Before leaving for China, she asked the Taiwanese people to forgive him should he say anything negative about Taiwan, since his statements were being made under duress.
Tanaka allowed solo home runs to Jonathan Schoop in the fourth and to Trey Mancini in the sixth, but prevented further damage, pitching his best under duress.
UCLA (19-11, 12-393 Pac-12) led for just 3:24, but the Bruins went ahead at the most crucial juncture on Campbell's runner under duress.
In the Central Park case, five boys, ages 14 through 16, were wrongly convicted with the help of flawed confessions that they said were given under duress.
"The fate of working people around the globe is under great pressure and duress, and we hope 'American Factory' can give voice to their journey," they added.
Several of the parties involved in the original 2011 deal stress that it was agreed to under great duress, and was never intended to dictate government policy.
Tye also did not come back and contest Brooks for the ball, the responsibility of a receiver when a pass is underthrown by a quarterback under duress.
Violence and destruction have a way of draining hope, but acts of altruism and selflessness under duress offered a sliver of light when people most needed it.
Though Williams was undoubtedly under duress, she never looked overwrought and drained the suspense out of the match by winning her last three service games at love.
State media have accused them of causing serious social disorder, with financial backing from abroad; lawyers' confessions, almost certainly given under duress, have been aired on national television.
There's no indication Face ID is any worse on this front than Touch ID, but it still raises real questions over how the system holds up under duress.
Several homeowners told Business Insider that the appraisals undervalued their properties by using comparison properties that had been foreclosed, sold under duress, or located in a dissimilar area.
This makes them perfect vehicles for cultivation, in the user, of the kind of commitment to attention that is under constant duress from the tempo of daily living.
Essentially, the winning edge is based on how your leadership encourages your team to overcome obstacles, win under duress, and deliver with excellence in spite of the odds.
They're internally referred to as "duress verticals" at Google, as they are companies people turn to in emergencies and typically without much time to verify the business' credibility.
She married an ISIS fighter under duress, she told the New York Times in an interview last week, and she describes herself as disillusioned with her life there.
If these mid-six-figure prices become the standard for gene therapy, it could also put duress to the healthcare system as it tries to absorb the cost.
The company contends it only agreed to make payments to the groups under duress, fearing attacks on workers and infrastructure at banana plantations operated by Chiquita's Colombian subsidiary.
Even earlier, though, the author notes, Aristotle described sweat that was (or seemed to be) blood, and scattered "case reports" described men and boys sweating blood under duress.
Competition from cheap natural gas and renewables has put significant strain and duress on the nuclear industry in recent years, causing numerous plants to close or plan closures.
But the way 24 blended those ideas — and the way 24: Legacy goes about doing so — involved, in essence, people behaving like soap opera characters when under duress.
" When asked about the ramifications of Franken's decision to resign, which Bash said was "under duress" -- and Klobuchar agreed -- the senator said it's "not about just toppling men.
And when they work on holidays, like Thanksgiving, it is not under threat or duress, but with the realization that such sacrifice deserves something extra, like holiday pay.
We called attention to the countless works of art belonging to Jewish families which were prolifically looted and "sold" under duress during the early years of the Holocaust.
She learned that nineteen states, including Florida, do not have revocation periods—except in cases of duress or fraud—and not all that do automatically return the child.
Or, in the case of members of the military's Special Operations forces who have taken the course, they learn how to drive under extreme duress on rough terrain.
We are all taught as school children that Americans have the rights to assemble, speak freely, and support whomever we want for public office without threat or duress.
Many of the sorts of congressional staffers who are typically eager to pitch in will travel to Cleveland only at the insistence of their bosses and under duress.
Once the military rule ended, the witnesses who had accused Ms. Hasina recanted, claiming their stories were extracted under duress; these retractions were reported in The Daily Star.
First, that the bond had never been properly authorised by Ukraine's parliament and government, was issued under duress and was subject to a number of implied additional terms.
The sale was made under duress to the Paris art dealers Hugo Perls, a collector of Picasso's work, and Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's dealer, for $13,19383, the suit says.
"We have families under duress, who now have to weigh the cost-benefit of being counted," said Sonja B. Santelises, the chief executive of the Baltimore school system.
It would be something impressive if Thompson could connect his money counter on MacDonald given the latter's stoicism and will to stick to a gameplan even under duress.
His long detention is a common tactic in Japan, where nearly 99 out of 100 indictments end in conviction — an outcome sometimes obtained through confessions made under duress.
"These images were taken under duress, ordered by a Harvard professor bent on proving the inferiority of African-Americans," Michael Koskoff said at the time, his brio undiminished.
Especially when it has historically been the case that in times of extreme duress, people have made trade-offs about personal freedoms and protections that have subsequently backfired.
But only someone who knows nothing about Iran would presume that it will pay more under duress to get the same thing it was promised three years earlier.
This plot-driven element, which culminates in a raid conducted while the American doctor Lisette Moreno performs field surgery under duress on a wounded fugitive, is deftly constructed.
Photographers tend to see New York through a romantic lens, as a city of human dignity under duress, of poor children making luxury of an open fire hydrant.
Further, he maintained that any alleged contract was made orally and that it was unenforceable under several legal defenses, including that Mr. Hastert, 75, made it under duress.
But Sabuda argued that customers who have fallen behind in payments, whether from financial hardship or in protest of Flint's continued state of duress, need to pay up.
Whatever their subject matter, the drawings contemplate how art can be used to foster personal habits that nourish artist and audience alike, even — especially — in times of duress.
Short answer, no: Kesha's lawyer, Mark Geragos, has said that "duress can void an agreement," but cannot cite another case where a recording contract was dissolved because of abuse.
Queen Victoria's reclusive youngest daughter, Beatrice, also resided in the castle, though not under duress, and she didn't get her head sliced off when she left, the lucky moo.
The videos are the latest in a recent string of on-camera confessions in China that have prompted international criticism that the admissions could have been made under duress.
"These facts are known now ... So farmers, even under financial duress, will make their best business decision for 2019 without the expectation of a marker facilitation program," Perdue said.
The anniversary comes as many global Jewish leaders are still questioning Germany's ability to return art looted from Jewish homes or sold under duress during Hitler's time in power.
Other Westerners detained in North Korea have previously confessed to crimes against the state, though many later recant their confessions after being released, saying they were made under duress.
Little noted that the Record Searchlight did the brunt of the work, under duress, and that the Chico-Enterprise Record simply printed pages that were sent to them electronically.
Big-budget rap albums by cultishly adored artists are now recorded under the same "fuck it" duress of a college student pulling an all-nighter on a term paper.
All five said their confessions were coerced under extreme duress, and they were later exonerated when a convicted serial rapist whose DNA matched the attack confessed to the crime.
International human rights activists say Jordan's military courts lack proper legal safeguards and say there are growing cases of the mistreatment of detainees and of extracting confessions under duress.
Foucault points out that parrhesia is having the courage to express truth to others or reveal a truth about oneself, even under duress or in the face of danger.
According to Dietl, he was paid to eavesdrop on Mackris's communications in an "establishment" to prove she wasn't under duress from alleged harassment, as she claimed in the lawsuit.
" He added that price action in Asia had reflected these concerns, with "Aussie banks getting smashed, despite not having anywhere near the same balance sheet duress as European banks.
I went under duress but ended up enjoying myself immensely, singing along with every lyric, even the songs I pretended I was too cool to like during the 21997s.
The appeals court's ruling, issued on Wednesday, accepted the claims of one of the trial judges, Chantal Ramazani, that the verdict had been issued under duress by the government.
Those with compromised metabolisms or who eat their feelings may not have much sympathy for skinnier people under divorce duress, but losing one's appetite can turn into something serious.
"These images were taken under duress and Harvard has no right to keep them, let alone profit from them," said Michael Koskoff, a lawyer for Lanier, told the newspaper.
His stay was then extended after escaping a psychiatric hospital where he was held under duress from the local authorities—along with a load of other classic Datsik craziness.
Global stocks have been under duress for a week as looming uncertainty about a Brexit next week pushed investors to safe-haven assets such as gold and the yen.
Let me finish by asking you ... So to me the blue-collar president means that he recognizes the economic duress and he's trying to implement policies to help them.
Brit + Co, though, has shown signs of duress and has tried to cut costs in recent months on things like video production, the person close to the company said.
She can still crush groundstrokes, punish soft second-serves, strike aces to all four corners of the service box, and bare her teeth and find the lines under duress.
Specifically, it's "Unsteady Pressure Sensitive Paint" that reacts with oxygen to create light, causing the parts of the rocket under the most duress to shine bright red in simulations.
The worker said that many children at the shelter, which has a capacity of about 240, had been showing signs of "psychological duress" as their stay there dragged on.
The lawsuit argued that the sale was made under duress to the Paris art dealers Hugo Perls, a collector of Picasso's work, and Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's dealer, for $19043,200.
The book is all mind, and an observant, taut, astringent mind it is, though there is something almost unhinged about so much rationality in the face of such duress.
Most consumers only interacted with the funeral industry on average every 14 years — and then, only under duress — so they weren't likely to compare prices or make informed choices.
As we celebrate Christmas in 2019, it is clear that the conventions, alliances, institutions and norms of the post-World War II order are under duress across the globe.
This won't happen without a return to the extreme pressure—perhaps wrought by direct action or legal duress—that league owners were forced to endure nearly two decades ago.
Contrary to claims by Chinese media and officials that forced confessions are rare in China, the country has a long record of using interviews taped under duress against dissidents.
Buddy Duress was another first-time actor, gangly and charismatic, who appeared in "Heaven Knows What," and again in "Good Time," which was informed by his time in jail.
It was a familiar strain of jittery duress and intensifying fragility that comes from trying with all your energy to figure out exactly how bad the future will be.
Roland Nadler, a neuroethicist at the University of Ottawa, told me that when inmates sign a consent form, they may be doing it under a kind of psychological duress.
This is where their minds go in moments of calm, and they're facing nothing on the order of World War II. Imagine what they'll be like under duress, or enraged.
The patent writeup doesn't mention the origins of this technology, but perhaps it was initially developed to test out the emotional duress of astronaut candidates, though that is pure speculation.
Corporate credit markets have been under duress as well, and measures of the investment grade corporate bond market are poised for their worst yearly performance since the 2008 financial crisis.
So he did the only thing he could do and by combatting economic duress became a better man—ironically for someone who had always been old, a more mature man.
But school head Agus and some rights activists said he signed documents under duress and the school should not be closed on the basis of minor damage to patriotic bunting.
STC Vice-President Hani Ali Brik, writing on Twitter earlier to mark Eid al-Adha, said while the Council remained committed to the coalition it would "not negotiate under duress".
The West Side Highway was next, with two perspectives on Moses: the visionary beauty of Riverside Park, and the ugliness of a Harlem playground that Moses had built under duress.
This is probably a good time to point out that even if you solve under duress, which Mr. Pollack apparently does, it feels great to finish, which Mr. Pollack did.
The boys accused of assaulting Ms. Meili — Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, Jr. — were convicted on the strength of contradictory confessions coerced under duress.
In Episode 5 "Eastwatch," Littlefinger planted a scroll for Arya to find, written by Sansa (under duress) in which she asks brother Robb to swear fealty to her "beloved" Joffrey.
Rauner, who has called for a state takeover of the school district, said the board has the legal authority to block borrowings by districts found to be in financial duress.
Freddy says Fairstein -- as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan D.A.'s Office -- knowingly ruined the kids' lives by interrogating them under duress to get false confessions.
The sentence includes an admission the U.S. army invaded Mexico, and Hamdan argues that signing an agreement under such duress renders it null, and therefore Mexican immigrants can't be expelled.
Laurel Zuckerman, who oversees the estate of Leffmann's wife Alice, sought $100 million in damages, alleging that the work was sold under duress in order to flee the Nazi regime.
Not performing as well as usual -- perhaps through loss of concentration or exhaustion -- is one indication that an employee may be experiencing duress as a result of depression or anxiety.
Gubarev is named at the end of the document, which said he was "recruited under duress" to help Russian intelligence services and became a "significant player" in Russian hacking operations.
Ahmed asked relatives to send him his 'bisht,' a robe worn for official engagements, prompting the person to speculate that he might soon make a public appearance, perhaps under duress.
Reuters told VICE News that Michael Gregory, the bureau chief, is "currently travelling on business," but would not confirm or deny reports that he had left the country under duress.
The heirs of Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim sued Bavaria in a US court to claim eight paintings that were allegedly sold under duress following the Nazis rise to power.
We all do it, either by choice or under duress, very often, so much so that most of us have the basic format memorized, whether we realize it or not.
"Well, he's obviously under a great deal of duress, but if he thinks he can bully Nancy Pelosi into backing off, he's with the wrong customer," Schumer responded on CNN.
At his trial, the main prosecution witness against him recanted statements identifying Mr. Sentsov as the leader of a terrorist cell, telling the court he had made them under duress.
Avenatti also appeared to suggest that Daniels may have entered the agreement under duress and denied that his client sought the deal because she wanted to profit from her story.
" The report found the allegations against the men to be "fantastical" and based on "hearsay, secret evidence, bad translations, gross errors of fact and testimony obtained under duress and torture.
It would be convenient to dismiss Valeant as a single company backed by aggressive, pushy investors laboring under the duress of a buying binge led by a failed management team.
But the good times are long gone, and on Thursday, General Motors became the latest in a wave of international companies that have shut their doors voluntarily or under duress.
The president and his advisors only allow the central bank to raise them under duress, and time will tell whether more central bank independence will be permitted in the future.
Unlike some dirt-raised organic vegetables she has tried, which can be blemished, or wilted by the duress of shipment, Mr. Smith's vegetables are raised in dirt-free, atmospherically controlled conditions.
"On the basis of the evidence available to us, we are clear that he was removed from Hong Kong under duress," Hammond told a small group of reporters in Hong Kong.
That could happen as soon as Friday, if the European Union agrees to the request made by Mr. Johnson, under duress last week, to extend the Brexit deadline to Jan. 31.
The scars that helped tell Camille's story, written on her body using sharp objects in times of emotional duress and overstimulation, are not something to be taken in jest, or mockery.
HannAssholeSolo's apology has since been deleted by The_Donald moderators in apparent support of the idea that the apology was made under duress because CNN threatened to expose his real-life identity.
And when CNN has interviewed detainees, North Korean officials have always been in the room, making it impossible to judge if statements of guilt and regret are being made under duress.
Michelle appealed that ruling and the judges agreed with her argument -- that Terrence was NOT under duress because too much time had passed between the threat and Terrence signing the agreement.
Trump himself was sometimes presented as a kind of Siberian candidate, working with Russian backers and handlers (in some of these theories, under duress) to deliver a pro-Russian U.S. government.
A journalist who accepts a bribe—even under duress—leaves himself open to later charges of extortion, which means that the offer of a bribe functions as both carrot and stick.
"Customers are purposefully being put in a situation where they have to make a quick decision — under duress — to either switch service to fiber or lose service altogether," the complaint says.
It said the military and court documents outlining the evidence against them were "rife with hearsay, secret evidence, bad translations, gross errors of fact and testimony obtained under duress and torture".
He's invoked the "Anglo-American legal tradition" in matters ranging from a 2006 dispute about the duress defense in criminal law to a 2011 case about the First Amendment's Petitions Clause.
"But the reality of street prostitution today is that minors and young women are being sexually exploited out of some type of duress, fear or some type of coercion," she said.
Dempsey's tweet raises concerns that Trump's action will make it harder for the military to ensure its troops follow the rules even under the duress of combat, an issue which Rep.
Solange's wildly introspective work on A Seat at the Table detailing black womanhood under the cultural duress of 2016 was so profound that we're still talking about it two years later.
In a statement, the Met strenuously denied there were grounds for the claim, asserting that the 1938 sale had been for fair market value and had not been made under duress.
As the nation grapples with the coronavirus crisis, voters will be looking to Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders for a sense of how they would lead a nation under extreme duress.
Under duress Hariri appeared on television denouncing the role Iran and its client militia Hezbollah played in his country, which was a good way to start a new civil war there.
Japanese prosecutors are notorious for extracting confessions from suspects, sometimes under duress: In 2017, 88 percent of those who went to trial confessed, according to data maintained by Japan's Supreme Court.
"I think that the Cardinal's move is basically a P.R. move that was made under duress," said Michael Reck, a lawyer who represents clergy abuse victims in cases against the diocese.
It is an operatic marathon that might test the patience of non-aficionados — in itself a good trick because the principals aren't enjoying much of anything about their holiday under duress.
This argument reminded me of lawsuits after Hurricane Katrina seeking to hold doctors and the police accountable for allegedly killing patients and unarmed civilians, respectively, in a context of extreme duress.
The 2015 conviction was mired in controversy with supporters of the two migrant workers arguing that they had been framed and that they had initially confessed to the crimes under duress.
In October, Schnatter told FOX Business that no one on the board knows anything about pizza, and franchises are under "a lot of duress" because the unit economics are not healthy.
Unlike the current courthouse, where inmates are under lock and key, the security features will be up to the minute, with closed-circuit television, card readers, duress alarms and bulletproof materials.
We're only given glimmers of life beyond Sam's direct encounters, but the impression given is that the vast majority of people are living in fear in underground shelters under extreme duress.
That task may become even harder, complicated by regulators reportedly probing his tweets, and a sharp drop in Tesla's stock after a widely circulated interview showed Musk under increasing emotional duress.
If this is not the moment where I unknowingly write } my present / duress when I build the arsenal (then what is?)   (what it's like to pretend)   Do you teach / Magical Realism?
Facts and diversity of voices are both under serious duress in the current national climate, so any blow against the maintenance of free speech stings a little more than the last one.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW Last week, Martinez&aposs lawyer requested his client receive 30 years in prison because he was forced to join the gang under duress,  according to the Boston Globe .
The software uses a machine learning algorithm to learn to identify "aggression in a person's voice" as well as "sound patterns associated with duress, anger or fear," according to the company site.
I'm not going to introduce you to all my teachers (laughs), I just want to tell you about some of the people who made me an artist and who lived under duress.
Dallas' Wesley Matthews was given the inbounds duty for a final shot but couldn't find an open teammate while under duress defensively from Ginobili, opting to throw the ball off a defender.
A customer under less duress considered a Machete (powdered cocoa mix, hot water, jalapeño-tequila shot), but requested a 4th Doctor, a hot-pants-red whirl of rum, pineapple juice, and grenadine.
Some survivors are punished for acting in self-defense; others are punished for crimes related directly to their abuse, for example selling or storing drugs at the duress of an abusive partner.
The issue of duress, raised by Ongwen's defense team, could be considered by the judges during the trial, or potentially taken into consideration as a mitigating factor were he convicted and sentenced.
To revive his campaign, Sanders needs to prove he's the best candidate to take on President Donald Trump and lead the country at a time of duress, his aides and allies say.
The grief of fathers, adoptive mothers and other relatives after a family death is no less real, but postpartum women in mourning endure a particularly complicated blend of physical and emotional duress.
Ralph S. Northam, the Democratic candidate, is under duress from both his Republican opponent and his own left flank in ways that could foreshadow his party's challenges in next year's midterm races.
But three generations of the Katz family have argued that their actions were made under duress and have fought for decades to regain possession of scores of works transferred during the war.
It was Nadal who saved a match point at 7-8 in the fifth set, feathering a backhand drop shot just over the net in a disarming display of delicacy under duress.
Berg initially launched a suit 10 years ago but has filed a new suit in the US disputing the Dutch government's claim that the works were not relinquished involuntarily or under duress.
First forced to sell his home under duress for too little money to a German businessman, Oskar Sommer, he argued that Mr. Sommer then illegally walked off with his artwork as well.
The future shape of Yemen can, and indeed should, be determined only by Yemenis free of the duress of war and willing to negotiate the future of their country in good faith.
And Mr. Akar's aide-de-camp, who helped detain Mr. Akar on the evening of the coup, admitted in written testimony to being a Gulenist, though that testimony was given under duress.
It makes sense that an ability to seamlessly tune out under duress, like ordering a temporary lobotomy on demand, would appeal—almost a covetable skill, like being good at meditation or mindfulness.
Mr. Cantlie escaped that fate, and instead he was used — presumably under duress — in Islamic State propaganda videos, releasing a "lecture series" in which he criticizes the Western response to the group.
But though Nunberg's emotional outpouring might be seen as the ramblings of someone under intense duress, it had enough hints of where the Russia investigation may be heading to worry the President.
Under his guidance, she defeated Serena Williams, Bajin's former employer, twice in 2018: once in the first round in Miami and once under much more duress in the United States Open final.
On one level, the Flint lead poisoning scandal is about a state mismanaging a city under financial duress and moving the city to a water supply that turned out to be unsafe.
Carefully crafted exemptions now allow — but do not require — waiver of the bans, for example, for aid provided under duress, or for doctors and nurses who provide medical assistance to wounded combatants.
It tells me that even through a series of unfortunate events, being well-read and careful and sure, being able to make a decent ceviche under duress, are things that will eventually prevail.
Rather than perpetuating the "silos" that have served as barriers to innovation and care coordination, we ask that policymakers bring both broad vision and a measure of "equanimity under duress" to further reform.
In a 2016 op-ed, Salaam wrote that their admissions were made under duress: "Police deprived us of food, drink or sleep for more than 24 hours," he wrote in The Washington Post.
The global steel industry has been under duress in recent years, with largest producer and consumer China under scrutiny for alleged dumping of the commodity on international markets due to domestic over-capacity.
But there has been more cooperation of late, in part because it has become a necessity under duress and in part because the new wave of leaders in tennis has much in common.
Fourth, the fresh challenge from explosive congressional hearings during the Hanoi trip created extreme new duress and made him eager for a foreign policy victory and openly covetous of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Shady criminal whisperer Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) brought Trish there under duress as a last-ditch effort to help her escape capture (Trish would have killed Jeri's new love interest Kith otherwise).
Seemingly minutes later, carefully cut videos started zinging around the Internet, analyzing every movement of Mr. Christie's eyes, head and fingers for signs of duress, as if he were a prisoner of war.
The Cardinals won the coin flip, chose to receive and marched the ball to the 49ers' 4-yard line only to see Palmer force a throw into the end zone while under duress.
Advocacy for such bills is just an example of how few tools are available to the White House during economic duress, Nathan Sheets, chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income, said in an email.
"As the court clearly explained, the painting was never in the hands of the Nazis and was never sold or transferred as a result of Nazi-era duress," it said in a statement.
TPS started in the George H.W. Bush administration as a bipartisan agreement to replace a prior program that gave immigration authorities the ability to exercise prosecutorial discretion for citizens of countries under duress.
During a phone call with the president last Friday, in which Trump reportedly asked for advice on the Mueller investigation, Goldberg says he told Trump that Cohen would not protect him under duress.
The 12 Thai boys rescued from the flooded Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand have survived the extreme physical duress, but now they may face a daunting mental challenge: post-traumatic stress disorder.
The video showed Mr. Musa appearing to be speaking under duress during his fifth day in the custody of the National Directorate of Security, an agency with a reputation for treating detainees harshly.
Mr. Gurlitt had inherited the art from his father, a dealer for the Nazis who purchased works that had been seized from Jewish households or sold under duress by Jews desperate to flee.
You can still refuse to answer questions on constitutional grounds or decline to turn over passwords, but more complicated measures like duress passwords could potentially get you held up on charges of obstructing justice.
Not all those heading back were doing so under duress from the militants, according to Mosul residents who said people were streaming in from the south as military operations edged closer to the city.
It peels the layers back on the black psyche under the duress of white supremacy and highlights the powerful perseverance and love that has enabled black people to survive the horrors of American oppression.
China's crackdown on dissent goes global "There is every reason to suspect he spoke under duress," said Willy Lam, adjunct professor at the Center for Chinese Studies, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
"What you had was, frankly, a hostage video with the president under duress saying what he had to say to meet the needs of the people who, off camera, were making demands," Hayden said.
In a brief statement on its website, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said a male passenger on Air China Flight 1350, attempted to use the pen to hold the flight attendant "under duress".
Ukraine disputed the validity of the loan on various grounds but the appeal court ruled that one of its arguments, related to duress arising from Russian aggression, particularly with regard to Crimea, was justiciable.
Despite this tight focus Mr Landes's film has the feel of a journalistic study, using a handheld camera to document the teens' behaviour under duress, but it also bears traces of its artistic inspirations.
Prosecutors interviewed Knox for hours without a lawyer, allegedly hit her, and derived contradictory claims from both her and Sollecito about their whereabouts, accounts that both later claimed were false and extracted under duress.
Such change can make it possible for those who are under the unrelenting duress of making decisions to merely prolong survival, potentially open to the rewards of being able to contemplate ideas beyond themselves.
What she lacked on Thursday was a more reliable first serve (she put just 55 percent into play) and a more reliable forehand under duress as Williams started to find her range and attack.
Soganub made an appearance under duress in a militant propaganda video about a week after his capture, urging the government to stop the military operation in Marawi in exchange for sparing lives of hostages.
General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said in December there was "no easy legal answer" to the question of whether Kolomoisky and PrivatBank stole money, and that Kolomoisky believes he agreed to the nationalization under duress.
All that weight — tons upon tons — hanging at an incline runs the risk of capsizing a ship because of the duress placed on it by its own heft, which means it could then potentially sink.
That stubborn hope, that we might come together under duress, is what motivates the decisions we make about how to lead our private lives, and all the political resistance we can band together and make.
And in case someone is forcing you to cancel the alert, you can use a secret pass-code to indicate it was a forced cancellation, which makes your responders aware you may be under duress.
Evans' performance is clearly about physical labor, and specifically about women's work, the labor that they do to maintain a hold on an idealized notion of womanhood, particularly while enduring the duress of stressful tasks.
So no, you shouldn't count on a dispatcher to immediately understand what you mean by 'pepperoni pizza,' but if you do stay on the line, they might be able to understand that you're under duress.
International human rights activists say militants are put on trial in military courts that are unconstitutional and lack proper legal safeguards, adding that there are growing cases of mistreatment and of extracting confessions under duress.
Trump also has a history of firing people in times of duress only to later bring them back into the fold — or even to resist firing them altogether, even if they've committed transparently harmful offenses.
Harlo: I speak to a lot of clients about this: you can definitely design lockout systems in the case of duress, but if your adversary is willing to end your life over it, should you?
Philadelphia EaglesOne thing to know: Defense continues to be a problem for the Falcons, who were gashed by Dalvin Cook and the Vikings in Week 1, while Matt Ryan was uncharacteristically sloppy and under duress.
So we went into a studio off of Oxford Street with Mark Waterman, an engineer for EMI Publishing, and we recorded a version of "Duress" with a drum machine and me and Jimmy playing bass.
When the only contact occurs under duress or stress, it is hard to imagine a counterexample to bias, never mind anyone ending up being a lifelong friend and honoring your civilian father 20 years later.
Also, a Dutch art dealer's grandson sues the Dutch government to return paintings sold to Nazis under duress, the Eastern Orthodox Church has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University to return stolen manuscripts, and more.
"The individuals who have been executed were convicted only on the basis of information provided by secret informants or by confessions allegedly extracted under duress," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told reporters in Geneva.
"I like to say that once the hall has been hired, the invitations go out, and the contract's been signed for the band, it's too late to have a prenuptial free of duress," he said.
The dossier describes how Aleksej Gubarev—CEO of XBT Holdings, of which Florida-based Webzilla is a part—was "recruited under duress" to become a major part of the Russian-led hacks of American campaign officials.
Under this kind of duress, it's likely that at least a few Angelenos have fantasied at the wheel about one day being able to soar over the congestion and float to the front of Chavez Ravine.
By the time Tebow was in camp with the New England Patriots in 2013, he was somehow crouching and ducking as part of his throwing motion, even when under no more duress than a July drizzle.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was sued on Friday for the return of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece allegedly sold under duress in 1938 because of Nazi and Fascist persecution in Europe.
Visiting the former British colony on Friday, Hammond had said a Hong Kong bookseller who disappeared from the city under mysterious circumstances last year had been removed under duress and that the business community was "unnerved".
Reports detail how many (but not all) girls and women subjected to FGM/C undergo the process at young ages, against their will, under extreme social duress, or without full knowledge of what's happening to them.
They have pushed each other forward from a respectful distance all these years, reassuring each other by their performances under duress that limits are as much in one's mind as they are in one's aging body.
Formal, high-level talks have been scarce, however, as Mr. Trump has moved forward with tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports and Chinese leaders have insisted that they will not make a deal under duress.
Parents posted pictures of unicorns and rainbows drawn by young children with the hashtag "It will all be OK." The duress also seemed to stir patriotism in a country that has a deep suspicion of nationalism.
And yet, as the Mets lost their sixth straight game on Thursday, all of them at Citi Field, and suffered still more disheartening injuries, it was hard to miss the signs of a team under duress.
The pivot is a more delicate change than one undergone by other institutions under more immediate duress, from Wells Fargo to Facebook to Uber, which have been forced to adapt in the face of crippling scandals.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco encapsulates a lot of things—erasure of history and identity, the realities of gentrification, the transcendent nature of friendship under duress—but it makes its point in its title.
Giving evidence on Wednesday to a committee of British lawmakers who are investigating sexual harassment in the workplace, Perkins said she was under duress when she signed the non-disclosure agreement and described it as immoral.
Though aid workers agree that the humanitarian situation in Madaya is perhaps the most dire in Syria — with children forced to eat leaves and grass to survive — civilians in Fua and Kefraya are also under duress.
" Michael Caster, who worked with Mr. Dahlin at the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, said on Monday that Mr. Dahlin had made the confession "under duress in effectively secret detention while being denied access to legal representation.
A judge ordered the justice system to review Oberlander's case a final time to determine whether he was, in fact, only cooperating with the Nazis under duress, and whether he should be allowed to stay in Canada.
"The Court of Appeal ... has in allowing Ukraine's appeal unanimously overturned the decision of Mr Justice Blair, and found that Ukraine's defence of duress is justiciable and should be the subject of a trial," the statement said.
Texas had a chance to win the game, but Kerwin Roach II's desperate drive under duress with two seconds left glanced off the rim and was corralled by Baylor, which swept the season series from the Longhorns.
No Q, handing out keys to the latest sexy sports car; no sleek bespoke suits; no silk sheets, or lavish casinos in exotic locales; and the only Champagne consumed in this story is done so under duress.
In addition to the torture, abuse and false imprisonment charges against him, David Turpin has also been charged with one count of lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear or duress.
Lower limits on legal immigration, and the resulting squeeze on the labour market, could lead to a rise in the number of migrants working in the country illegally, both of their own free will and under duress.
The commission made 64 recommendations, most of which were decades behind their European counterparts, such as doing away with pre-Hillsborough protective fencing, restricting fan movement in times of duress, and employing safety stewards during match days.
Buddy Duress That's definitely the case with Good Time's Connie Nikas, an aspiring lowlife who embarks on a neon-lit crime spree through Queens after a violent offscreen clash with his grandmother and a botched bank robbery.
"So instead of standing up for and protecting breastfeeding mothers and our children, already under the duress faced by flying with our young children, KLM would rather hold up antiquated values that shame women's bodies," she wrote.
GE's then-huge finance division was also under duress thanks to the financial crisis and the parent was eager to rid itself of media assets that made little sense in its portfolio of jet engines and capacitors.
"The combination of P&L duress and confusion makes any outlier [employment] number ... a lot higher in terms of sensitivity, in terms of where the market might take things," Azous said in a Wednesday "Trading Nation " interview.
You mentioned the extensive discussions we've had about the labor conditions at Rockstar, and how every moment of awe is partially robbed because it's possible that awe was created by people under physical, emotional, and psychological duress.
Playing the role of spoiler to near perfection, the Toronto goalie was under constant duress from a desperate Flyers team, yet the Maple Leafs came away with a 4-3 overtime victory thanks to Bernier's 41 saves.
Less than three minutes later on first and 10 from the Cardinals' own 39-yard line, Barkley had to rush a play under duress and had the ball knocked out of his hand by linebacker Dwayne Norman.
I had been reporting the article for months and I'd spoken to lots of people who do sex work (for a range of reasons: some out of economic duress and others as a matter of true choice).
He played in the school band, played, albeit under some duress, at the parties his father was partial to throwing in the house, and he was good enough to pick and choose gigs with several local bands.
Lawrence Kaye, a lawyer for Zuckerman, said many European tribunals have ordered the return of artwork sold under duress in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, though such cases have been less common in the United States.
The official White House Snapchatter was doing the social media version of blinking out "help me" in Morse code while under duress, subliminally sending the message that DeVos is a flagrantly unqualified pick for Secretary of Education.
She goes on to confront her sister with the letter she pilfered from under Littlefinger's mattress, which the elder Stark was forced to write under duress, disowning Ned and demanding their brother Robb to bend the knee.
Najib has been buffeted for months by allegations of graft at 1MDB and revelations of the transfer, adding to a sense of crisis in a country under economic duress from slumping oil prices and a sliding currency.
Each attack, then, quickly sets off a zero-sum debate over the related issues of gun control, immigration or religious tolerance — some of the most divisive issues in the country — litigated in a moment of national duress.
In 2016, the head coach of the women's national cycling team was accused by the team's American founder and many of its members of repeatedly marrying and divorcing his riders, under duress, as well as other offenses.
After betraying Maggie and the denizens of the Hilltop, Gregory slithers back to their stronghold and pleads for a safe haven, claiming he only worked with Negan under duress — a dystopian take on the "good German" argument.
The gravitational rhythm of Walcott's lines, however, doesn't deny but works under duress to assuage despair: Ending the stanza on "the leaves" asserts the Caribbean landscape's (and its people's) natural utterance, the dignity of dialect, over History.
In northern India, where most of the 1,452 workers interviewed were located, about 853 percent started their home-based work because of "some form of duress," including severe financial hardship, family pressure or lack of alternate income.
Many federal employees were required to continue working during the dispute without pay, which left the air traffic control system in a "state of chaos" and TSA workers in a "state of duress" from forced overtime, Samuelsen said.
LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Britain's court of appeal has found that Ukraine's defence of duress in a dispute with Russia over a $3 billion Eurobond should be the subject of a trial, Ukraine's legal counsel said on Friday.
The three women who met Weinstein to discuss their projects or auditions "operated under duress and the threat of being blacklisted" by Weinstein and other producers at Miramax if they refused, or spoke up, according to the lawsuit.
Continuing to drive while under extreme physical duress might not have been the best choice, but it was the human one, and that's what makes Autopilot's role in getting Neally to the hospital in one piece so poignant.
With Koch's penchant for site-specific exhibitions, this cannot be a mistake, this desire to allow a poppy to have life in an impossible place, to give the audience a sense of hope below ground or under duress.
Several power plants are shutting down under economic duress, which is putting pressure on Congress and state legislatures to keep them open, while a new generation of advanced nuclear technologies need government backing to get off the ground.
"Under the duress of price and just the learning curve, people continued to get more efficient and by the end of 2015, a dollar spent was about 60 percent more efficient than it was in 2014," Yergin said.
The belief that Trump is a predictable reaction to acute economic duress crumbled before the finding that his primary voters had a median household income of $72,241 — well above both the national average and that of Clinton supporters.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Conservative Alejandro Giammattei swept aside his center-left rival in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, and now inherits an unpopular migration deal agreed under duress with the Trump administration that could severely test his country.
Interior Minister Kalmukhanbet Kasymov told the same Security Council meeting that police had first believed that the attacker had accomplices, but had later learned that another man they had detained was driving a car under duress at gunpoint.
The assertion bordered on the impudent — suggesting that BlackRock and its $5 trillion stash of assets had become the new guarantor of stability because of its ability to buy and sell stocks and bonds in times of duress.
But the Human Rights Watch report goes further, describing a symbiosis between that system and the state judiciary that makes it harder for suspects to challenge accusations or to retract confessions that they say were made under duress.
Working in service often puts workers together in close quarters under duress for long periods of time, and it's not uncommon to develop a kind of soldier-like camaraderie, but Beth and I quickly formed a genuine bond.
In perhaps the most telling illustration of how serious the fourth quarter was, both teams combined to shoot an under-duress 35.5 percent from floor — after connecting on a combined 55.5 percent of their shots through three quarters.
In the morning, we would procreate—or take our first steps in that direction, which on my part would involve producing a sperm sample under duress (unlike, I couldn't help thinking, the way it had been with Allison).
Nazi persecution put Purrmann in a financial bind, which led him to liquidate his art collection; his sale of the 16th-century painting to the Gemäldegalerie in 1937 qualifies for restitution as the sale was made under duress.
The government and immigrants' lawyers are nearing an agreement that would give many of those parents a second chance to stay in the US, acknowledging the duress of separation may have impacted their ability to make their case.
When a hapless scientist came to the lab after hours, he admitted (under Elizabeth-duress) that tens of thousands of eggs of the wheat-eating midges were being sent to a company with the conspiracy-friendly name Agricorp.
We have a consular duty towards him and our principal concern now is to ensure that he is returned to Hong Kong free of any duress, to carry on his life here without any constraints or impositions on him.
Mr. Earnest said it was possible he was acting under duress, but that did not mean Iran had violated the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war because the United States is not at war with Iran.
An analysis of over 2500,83 adults by Jonathan Rothwell of Gallup found that Mr Trump's supporters are most likely to live in areas beset with problems associated with economic duress, including ill health and low rates of social mobility.
But China and North Korea would not make concessions in the face of U.S. "hegemony" and would not accept terms signed under duress, the commentary added, in another reference to expressions used today by China on the trade war.
Felicity Huffman plays Fairstein in "When They See Us" which documents her controversial role in getting the 5 boys -- all black or Hispanic -- to confess, under heavy duress, to the 1989 rape and attack of a Central Park jogger.
In a brief statement on its website, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said a male passenger on Air China Flight 1350, who it did not identify, attempted to use the pen to hold the flight attendant "under duress".
Brendan Dassey had confessed to helping his uncle, Avery, carry out the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach, but attorneys argued that Dassey's confession was false, and came under duress after his constitutional rights were violated throughout the investigation.
The risk is that under deadline-driven duress, and to prevent a self-fulfilling prophecy from taking hold, House Republicans pass something reckless and unworkable that takes on a life of its own and—against all odds—becomes law.
Their local assets are understood to be significantly overvalued while their liquid assets are often tied up abroad under the control of trustees, some of whom will not release funds unless they know the beneficiaries are not under duress.
G.E.'s then-huge finance division was also under duress thanks to the financial crisis, and the parent company was eager to rid itself of media assets that made little sense in its portfolio of jet engines and capacitors.
This is one reason that when autocrats, especially long-serving ones, exit the stage, they often do so under duress or by force: Think of Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya in 2011 or, more recently, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
Similarly, at 33A, the answer to the clue "Recite aphorisms?" doesn't sound like something one might normally do except under duress, but the answer, STATE MOTTOES, can be reimagined to mean that you STATE (or "recite) MOTTOES (or "aphorisms).
In a recent report, the Netherlands Museum Association announced that after a decade of research, Dutch museums have so far discovered 172 artworks in their collections with problematic histories, suggesting they may have been looted or sold under duress.
Press TV has found itself enmeshed in several controversies, including in 2010 when it broadcast a confession given under duress by Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian journalist who was arrested in 2009 while covering the Iranian elections for Newsweek.
Not so crazy if you observed all the shots and grit that Andreescu had to summon under duress to defeat tennis elder after tennis elder in the desert and win one of the most prestigious titles in the sport.
In addition to a general uptick in video interviews over recent years, thanks to advances in technology, previous periods of economic and social duress have prompted a spike in remote hiring, for instance during the 2008 global financial crisis.
However, Lopez Obrador did argue clemency should be shown to vulnerable people who had been convicted for transporting or selling drugs under duress, and that prison stays were more likely to push them into the arms of organized crime.
"We suspect that consumer confidence will be under tremendous duress in the coming months, which will likely have negative ramifications for items of 'want' versus items of 'need' ... placing additional pressure on demand," Gordon Haskett analyst Chuck Grom said.
But 217 years on, he was the Molinari saving the pars and making the putts under duress, and he is no longer under the shadow of any Italian golfer after his pressure-proof performance at this year's British Open.
"I obviously always expect a lot from myself, but it's a fact that I'm not playing close to my best, and I know that," Djokovic said, his self-analysis under duress more accurate than his two-handed backhand was.
"It's really showing that we have a system that's under duress," said Donald K. Perovich, a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and the lead author of the report's chapter on sea ice.
It's worth noting, though, that Mr. Trump signed the bill under duress — he tweeted that he would "NEVER sign another bill like this again" — and that in most areas the White House's initially proposed budget called for far less.
But the ride's troubles appear to have started long before then – the theme park it's part of has been under financial duress in recent years, spurred on by rising insurance premiums and damage from 2016's Hurricane Matthew, news reports said.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Friday that a Hong Kong bookseller who disappeared from the Chinese-controlled city under mysterious circumstances last year had been removed under duress, and that the business community was "unnerved".
A man who once never really loved his country, save under duress or orders or whatever you want to call it, is going to be meeting with Vladimir Putin in the fall, a host of other dignitaries who have invited him.
Ukraine disputed the validity of the loan on various grounds, particularly on the grounds of duress arising from Russian aggression, including with regard to Crimea and the eastern Ukraine, a statement from Ukraine's Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP said.
Uh, so people on the ground like RAÍCES, it's a advocacy group, they're trying to see if there are any fathers who sign their deportation orders under duress thinking it was the only way that could be reunited with their sons.
The fallacy of pinning hopes on policies such as the new price-transparency rule is that patients in America are viewed as consumers who can easily shop around, rather than people who are unwell and under duress, says Dr Hsia.
This is a freeze-frame from a short video of Kendall saying that it was nice meeting me; it looks like it was recorded under duress and is a prime example of why Kylie and I get along much better.
HONG KONG, April 8 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Friday that a Hong Kong bookseller who disappeared from the city under mysterious circumstances late last year had been removed under duress, and that the business community was "unnerved".
It stars Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne as a mother-daughter pair under duress (caused by personal grief and the fact that both of them are very annoying people), and it also features the apartment complex from The Hills. Cool!
The film invites you to care about what happens to him without rooting for him, especially in its final act, when Connie and Ray (Buddy Duress), the fellow traveler he's picked up along the way, kill time in a stranger's apartment.
Facing a fourth-and-6 from Denver's 14-yard line with 2:18 remaining, the Patriots again went for it, and Brady, backpedaling and under duress by Denver's pass rush, threw incomplete to the triple-covered Gronkowski in the end zone.
"By knowingly peddling lies and statements that were presumably obtained under duress, CCTV and Xinhua become mass propaganda weapons and cease de facto to be news media," said Benjamin Ismail, head of the organization's Asia Pacific desk, in a statement.
" PEOPLE obtained a statement Luke's attorney, Christine Lepera, provided to the trade publication, saying, "Any claim of duress in connection with that testimony is simply absurd … The vicious smear campaign to extort Luke and damage him and his family is inexcusable.
"Marriage Story" isn't the chronicle of a disintegrating relationship as much as one evolving under severe duress, as Charlie and Nicole renegotiate the terms of their engagement, custody of their son and — perhaps most brutally — the narrative of their life together.
The firm has become so powerful under his leadership that it has even been suggested that BlackRock has become the new guarantor of stability, simply because of its ability to buy and sell stocks and bonds in time of duress.
In addition to emotional duress claims, Avid has come under fire for reportedly shoddy security practices that allowed the breach and an alleged army of "fembots" — fake female user profiles used to tempt men into signing up for the service.
It's possible that unifying identities and attestations in a single place is actually quite undesirable; individuals may theoretically have control over what they share, but in practice, can be put under duress where they have little choice to surrender it all.
He says to do this it's critical to run chaos testing (tests of mission-critical systems under extreme duress) in live environments, whether you're testing Kubernetes clusters or anything else, but it's also a bit dangerous to do be doing this.
Mercurio's most successful medium is a mash-up of the police procedural and the political conspiracy thriller, and his storytelling trademarks include severe psychological duress, inappropriate sex among public servants and the ease with which major characters are killed off.
Enter the Ravens (7-5), a team employing a run-first-pass-only-under-duress strategy that has led to three consecutive wins in which Lamar Jackson, Gus Edwards and assorted other teammates have rushed for 267, 242 and 207 yards.
Mr. Geisel argued that the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum could not address the complexities involved in restitution claims, such as whether a painting was stolen or sold under duress, or whether compensation after World War II for lost art was adequate.
But the wormhole's proximity to a black hole causes gravitational time dilation; in the brief time Cooper and another crew member (Anne Hathaway) spend exploring one of the planets, 23 years of earth time elapse, causing duress for the scientists.
"Although the Katz brothers usually received some payment for the artworks sold under duress, it was generally below market value," reads the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C. The suit was filed there because Mr. Berg lives nearby.
Rather than augmenting higher-level consciousness, a substance like psilocybin actually shuts down our brain's ego center, which, under duress, can confer crippling fear, guilt and insecurity, and instead allows people access to their unfettered emotions and sense of childlike wonder.
"I got married under duress because my partner is non-Bermudian and my partner and I weren't planning on getting married but we had no choice because we had a six-month window where it was now or never," he said.
Digital detox by threat of duress worked: Neither of us wound up having to fork over any money to Grunt Style, the oxymoronic label on every T-shirt sleeve of choice for AR-15-wielding wannabes in these United States.
Agarwal said Modi and many financial institutions were not in favor of waiving farm loans, as done by states recently won by the main opposition Congress party, because doing so mainly helps banks and not so much farmers in duress.
Rodgers showcased it throughout Green Bay's Week 8 victory at Kansas City, completing passes under duress and from a variety of arm angles, but particularly on a third-and-1 early in the fourth quarter, with the score tied, 17-17.
Despite being nearly a decade old, QWOP feels as fresh today as it did then, and that says something about the power of gameplay that is based on deliberate fiddly controls that are deployed under situations that cause the most duress.
It is clear, in speaking with Teixeira, who has spent more than a decade divided between the United States and his place of birth, that he finds issues of immigration — whether voluntary or under extreme duress — to be exceedingly personal.
Spotters shared hundreds of video clips with team medical staffs this year and McDonald said there were rare occasions where a CFL spotter intervened a game in progress due to a player that was under duress from a blow to the head.
Directed and co-written by Ava DuVernay, the opening chapter is a textbook on police and prosecutorial abuse, as the New York authorities bullied terrified and confused teenagers of color into "confessions" that amounted to pointing fingers at others under intense duress.
These fields, worked by enslaved black people until 20173 (and worked by black people for decades after emancipation under various forms of duress) are anchored with the kind of Big House most Americans might associate with Gone With the Wind or Django Unchained.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Perhaps I am not the target audience for Bret L. Rothstein's "fan letter to unruly objects," The Shape of Difficulty (2019, Penn State University Press), because it presupposes that its reader is under some kind of duress.
China this week expelled Peter Dahlin, a Swedish national who had been taken into custody this month on suspicion of acts detrimental to the country's national security, after rights groups criticised his televised confession, saying it appeared to have been made under duress.
The counter elbow proved to be money once again as it set Asker wobbling and stumbling back onto the cage, but the running elbow follow ups were pretty obvious and probably wouldn't fly against a higher quality opponent with better instincts under duress.
But it is worth considering: Is being with a loved one -- who may or may not, by then, even know your presence -- worth years of your own suffering as you sort through the choices you made under the duress of looming death?
In medical school, one of my mentors, the legendary surgeon Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., taught us the importance of "equanimity under duress"—the ability to look calmly at the larger picture and not rush to judgment even when pressured to do so.
They're shitty because they show Kanye, whatever his feelings on his relationship to Amber may be, subscribing to the common notion that strippers are an untouchable caste when actually they're human beings making human decisions, the kind too often made under duress.
Indeed, there are several Tarkovsky-esque elements in The Rain, recalling his obsession with loneliness and the relationship between human beings under duress: Bunker hideouts resemble the craft of Solaris, while a quarantine zone the characters stumble upon clearly calls back to Stalker.
The Christian leader (Jess Weixler) of a group of teenagers who have pledged chastity until marriage is forced to break her oath under duress and discovers she is the embodiment of a mythical condition, vagina dentata (the second word refers to teeth).
France has sought to bring the two into talks but has so far failed, suggesting neither is willing to abandon core elements of policy - the U.S. belief that pressure will bring Iran to its knees, and Iran's refusal to capitulate to U.S. duress.
"The consumer is under enormous duress with that 18 percent, 19 percent inflation on the back of a naira devaluation, and we are seeing disposable income dry up," John O'Keeffe, the Africa president for drinks maker Diageo, told a March conference call.
For some feminists, sex work amplifies the oppression of women, both by presenting female bodies and sexuality as commodities available for sale and through the exploitation of women sex workers, who are presumed to despise their jobs and only do them under duress.
Albuquerque eventually filed a joint lawsuit with the state of New Mexico, citing duress similar to that claimed by San Diego County—and the newer suit goes into far more detail about the state resources deployed to pick up the federal government's slack.
PARIS — A new task force in France has been given a broader mandate to search for and return artwork that had been looted or sold under duress during the Nazi occupation, after years of criticism that its restitution efforts were not proactive enough.
Even today, experts say it is unclear how those pieces were chosen, and they caution that they do not know how many were actually looted or sold under duress, and how many were proper sales that the authorities have been unable to trace.
France has sought to bring the two into talks but has so far failed, suggesting neither is willing to abandon core elements of policy - the U.S. belief that pressure will bring Iran to its knees, and Iran's refusal to capitulate to U.S. duress.
In his order freeing Mr. Lopez, the judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, noted that the chief trial witness changed her account of the killing three times and eventually confessed that her testimony was "a pure fabrication" made under duress from the police and prosecutors.
But in a 15-page confession, which he most likely signed under duress, he worried that the crackdown would harm ethnic relations and that the mass detentions would make it impossible to achieve the economic progress he needed to earn a promotion.
LONDON/KIEV, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine will ask the British Supreme Court on Monday not to force it to pay billions of dollars in debt to Russia without a trial that would determine whether Kiev was forced to borrow the money under duress.
Britain called the cases a "serious breach" of the Joint Declaration — the 03 treaty that paved the way for Hong Kong's return to China — and said one of the booksellers, a British passport holder, had been removed from Hong Kong "under duress".
Over the next few months, China will be only one of several countries closely monitoring the Trump administration's protectionist bent in the steel and aluminum sectors, where the White House has a little more leeway to protect industries under duress from imports.
Related: One of the World's Most-Wanted Nazis Just Won a Big Legal Victory The judge in the case said that there needed to be study of whether or not Oberlander was only cooperating with Nazis under duress, or out of fear of his life.
In the film, Begg describes how he signed what he now terms a false confession to being a member of Al Qaeda in 2002, at a time when he was said to be under duress while in detention at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
But the corresponding instinct to turn the back to damage can be used effectively in the form of the turtle and the shoulder roll is really just a refined application of the fetal position we are all born in and return to under great duress.
You feel the story's compression most in the second half, especially the melodramatic, rushed final episode, which works in both the story of George's son Tom (Sedale Threatt Jr.) — named, under duress, for his slave-master grandfather — and George's service in the Civil War.
"It would be unjust to permit ... Russia to proceed to seek to make good the contract claim without Ukraine being able to defend itself by raising its defense of duress at trial," the court of appeal judges said in their judgment, given on Friday.
You may also notice Washington running back Rob Kelley, moving with no more urgency and under no more duress than someone shuffling forward to place an order at a supermarket deli counter, trotting into the end zone for his third touchdown of the evening.
They even finally agreed — under duress — to equal prize money for men and women at the 2007 championships and continue to give women big windows of visibility, particularly for singles matches during the second week, with stand-alone days for the quarterfinals and semifinals.
The queen had promised to send troops north to help her enemies, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, defeat the army of the dead, and it infuriates Jamie to discover that Cersei had so readily done exactly what Jon could not, even under duress: lie.
But as Kirk, McCoy and the other Enterprise crew members show Spock often, being human is about more than anger, and I find it hard to believe that even a younger version of Spock would let himself get like this, even under extreme duress.
The authorities in the country are notorious for using confessions, sometimes extracted under duress, to get convictions, and they are not used to being thwarted: In 2017, 88 percent of those who went to trial confessed, according to data maintained by Japan's Supreme Court.
Here and elsewhere, local tax assessors served as accessories before the fact, deliberately overvaluing black-owned land or enacting sharp, capricious assessment spikes as development crept near, all aimed at forcing poor black farming families to sell under duress or steering them into tax delinquency.
It said its then-government had lacked the capacity to enter into the agreement with Russia, that the debt was incurred under duress, the terms attached to the issue were unfair and finally, that non-payment was a countermeasure against Russian interference in its economy and territory.
The way Guyger's case was handled in those early days seemed to follow a familiar trajectory of how most officers are treated when they take Black lives, whether it's on camera, while unarmed, while in mental duress, or even for being a child with a toy.
Narrated by Meryl Streep, and featuring a gentle but energetic original score by Wilco bassist John Stirratt, the film is a deceptively breezy retrospective on Mass MoCA's unlikely success; it illuminates how and to what extent art and cultural institutions can help revive communities under duress.
If Trump were to get his way, Sessions would resign under duress, Trump would (one way or another) seat a new attorney general who would refuse to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, before ultimately quashing it, and Republicans in Congress would let it all slide.
NBC News reports that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a number of other groups are representing several parents who say they signed a "separated parent's removal form" under duress at the behest of ICE agents despite their requests for legal representation to explain the forms.
I/We do hereby affirm and declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, the United States and the State of _____________, that this agreement has been entered into voluntarily, and without any threats, promises, duress and/or coercion of any type.
I had my obligatory Duty Free experience in Sydney, which is to say that I was channeled through a Duty Free store rather than opting to enter it, and so was exposed to all the familiar brands I had seen a day earlier under similar duress.
It&aposs unusual, but prior to sentencing, in the interest of justice, the lawyers for Flynn can convince the judge that the predicates for a guilty plea, which the judge&aposs obligation to find out, whether the person is pleading guilty voluntarily and without coercion and duress.
Aside from arguing the debt was contracted under duress, Ukraine had based its defense on the argument that the borrowing, made by former president Viktor Yanukovych, had not been properly authorised and had been subject to terms and conditions that were not spelled out in the contract.
It also gives them a diversification option: If the drug route gets cracked down, they still own the land, which they can sell off for major profits, since the original sale is usually made under duress (you can't really negotiate real estate prices with a drug cartel).
London (CNN Business)The damage the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting on the global economy is so severe that governments are poised to start handing out cash directly to citizens, an emergency measure to help cover food, rent and utility payments during a period of extreme duress.
The ouster of South Africa's chief prosecutor by the country's highest court on Monday demonstrates both the hurdles and the promise of the battle against deeply ingrained corruption, which he pledged after the resignation under duress of the perfidious Jacob Zuma as president six months ago.
But she ruled that the estate could not show Mr. Leffmann had been forced to sell the painting under duress because any pressure he experienced was not the fault of the buyers or the party being sued, the museum, but rather the Nazis and their allies.
Bernie Sanders was pointing — to the left, to the right, at himself, at the sky — in one moment coming under such ubiquitous duress that he extended both hands outward, as if pushing to the front of a crowd, to swat back stage-wide accusations of fuzzy math.
We're hot-wired to either fight or flight under duress, and while encountering a saber-toothed tiber is something that no longer happens regularly (thank god), the same fight-or-flight response still occurs when we're faced with a stressful situation, triggering a series of internal reactions.
Dom and Darlene's Kidnapping Yael: So the Darlene/Dom kidnapping scene reminded me of a conversation we had in a previous chat about duress, and how you can program stuff to lock you out, but if someone's gonna start offing people, maybe you don't want to.
It may sound a bit like a bait-and-switch, but previous research has shown that one way to help reefs that are under duress is to encourage diverse and abundant fish populations, which can help counteract the downward spiral that ultimately leads to reef death.
"Letters to Olga," Vaclav Havel A extraordinary document of letters, written by a man in jail under extreme duress, as he resists the Communist regime, trying not to crumble, struggling to maintain his integrity in the face of the physical and mental punishments set upon him.
Often he is smooth and in control, even under extreme duress, like when he has a gun to his head in the finale (one of many, many times he has a gun to his head) but still manages to pay off Comandante Calderoni (Julio Cesar Cedillo).
It's easy to imagine a scenario in which large groups of displaced people, or minorities in a country that would sooner see them gone, are forced to take a foreign nationality under duress and are then sent away, absolving their home country of any legal responsibility.
It's designed to prevent wireless issues before they even occur, and offers you the ability to run tests on your internet download and upload speeds, export the results in sleek reports, and even assure that hotspots are placed correctly so that you can avoid unnecessary duress in the future.
Celedón seems to draw on such characters not in order to aestheticize disability (in the way, for instance, Alejandro Jodorowsky elevates the beauty of deformity over what he calls the monstrousness of normality) but to emphasize the vulnerability of their bodily constraints in the face of absolute duress.
"It smacks a bit of the Bank of Scotland (HBOS) / Lloyds where you never know how much pressure is put on the biggest bank in Spain by the central bank so I'd be surprised if they had agreed to it under duress but that will come out," he said.
Given the extent of Nazi looting and the art sales made by Jews under duress in the years leading up to and through World War II, any work that was transferred from one party to another in Europe during that period typically receives the highest level of scrutiny.
Stockholm syndrome seems more widely diagnosed in journalism and in pop culture than in medical offices, and is perhaps still most associated with Patty Hearst, whose defense lawyers argued that the heiress hostage turned accused bank robber had gone along with her captors because she was under duress.
France, in particular, has sought to bring the two into a wider dialogue but has so far failed, suggesting neither is yet willing to abandon core elements of policy: the U.S. belief that pressure will bring Iran to its knees, and Iran's refusal to capitulate to U.S. duress.
It has intervened in Syria and wishes to involve itself in nearly every Middle east crisis from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to the rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia, especially after the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, most probably under duress from his Saudi patrons.
Trump's official office-taking event has been the subject of a lot of attention in the lead-up to the day, since the Trump administration has been scrambling to find artists willing to actually perform – and even then coming up with some acts that are attending partly under mild duress.
Since a few days after the stop, Parhamovich began corresponding with Wyoming law enforcement officials — arguing that he signed the waiver under duress, asking for the state to return his money, and, at the very least, requesting that officials notify him if there are relevant court hearings about the cash.
"The confession tape, from my understanding, because I haven't seen it, (is) an amalgamation or it's cut and edited from the many months of my detention as well as scenes from court under duress, under threats of torture and psychological pressure," Hedges told Reuters in an interview in New York.
All five men confessed to the crime originally, under duress, and all recanted almost at once; the real rapist's DNA was linked to the semen on the victim's body, and the five accused men had their charges vacated in 2002, years after their original conviction and years into their jail time.
A Rome-based canon lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of his position in the Church, said he believed a resignation could be possible but that "it would be very complicated and hairy" and its validity hotly contested because some would see it as a result of duress.
There were drop-shot winners that hit the clay and spun backward like wedge shots in golf; precision passing shots under duress; and, in the case of Nadal, cocksure crosscourt two-handed backhands that the 37-year-old Federer could only watch wistfully from afar as they bounced out of reach.
Why it matters: Per the Times, which obtained the letter, the escalating dispute "threatens to prolong and magnify an acrimonious transition" at the top of the best-known women's health care and reproductive rights group in the U.S. at a time when Planned Parenthood is increasingly under external political duress.
Over eight minutes, Warren then moved onto what the twinned personnel and empowered enforcement could do at the Department of Education, the EPA, the Pentagon, and touched on the Great Depression, World War II, the historical moment before us, and if people should cower or fight in times of duress.
Republic, though it spawned the hit "Regret," got a much shorter run, which makes sense since it was created under duress: The band wasn't getting along, but longtime label Factory Records was in dire need of cash—as was the Hacienda, the equally legendary nightclub the band co-owned with Factory.
She earned it on Saturday by holding her own early, under considerable duress, and then fighting off two set points in the opening set, an intense corner-to-corner duel in which the grunts from the players and the applause from the spectators reverberated off the closed Centre Court roof.
You have Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, holding a Supreme Court appointment hostage for nearly a year, blocking almost all legislative debate and passing a bill to protect the 2020 elections from foreign interference only under extreme duress; the world's "greatest deliberative body" is now a speedway for the Trump agenda.
Considering the question in the abstract is somewhat more straightforward: either one party is subject to duress in the exchange itself, or the exchange takes place in an environment shaped by coercion, corrupted by anti-competitive privilege—for example, government-granted monopolies and licenses, subsidies (directly or indirectly as cost-offsetting), and bailouts.
I even know someone who was informed in no uncertain circumstances that the aged Comté he was buying at the cheese shop was too good for fondue; it would be scandalous, the cheesemonger said, to use it for such a purpose, and while he eventually made the sale, it was under duress.
All too aware of the credibility crises afflicting the global governing bodies of soccer and track and field, tennis's leaders agreed under duress in January to authorize an independent review of the sport's integrity and make the exceptional commitment to adopt all of the review panel's recommendations when they are issued in 2017.
" In her lawsuit, Jean claims her late husband's adult children forced their father to sign a "Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care … under duress and undue influence" in November 2007 while he was "without legal representation, recovering from surgery, under the influence of medications and other substances that causes drowsiness and impairs judgement.
If a person consents to spending their own money — even if that consent is given under duress — it doesn't qualify as identity theft in most of the US. Under most states' laws, the assumption is that if someone knows their money is being spent, they cannot later claim to have been a victim of theft.
For example, Glasofer said, a subset of people who experience frequent binge-eating episodes - within the context of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge-eating disorder - may be driven to obtain large, often expensive, quantities of food on a regular basis and this can lead to financial duress, resulting in possible theft of food items.
I had stacks of pants, a few jackets, a number of collared button-down shirts (which my children only wore under duress.) To see how baby clothes fared in the online consignment world, I asked a friend for a few cast-offs, and she obliged with several sweaters and a pair of teeny overalls.
Under duress because of Trump's threat to impose tariffs unless Mexico stemmed a surge in migrants that has overwhelmed U.S. detention facilities and immigration courts, Mexico signed a pact last week agreeing to control the flow of people from Central America, including deploying 6,000 members of a new national guard along its border with Guatemala.
Bono ventured out of the area under duress to try to clear the ball and passed to teammate Ager Aketxe, who, inexplicably, turned to his right and sent the ball straight to Penilla, who steadied the ball, waited a beat and lifted a shot that beat Bono back to his line and into the net.
He was an unusual product of his time, but that doesn't mean he was exempt from its backward thinking, which makes his portraits of black men under duress, in one-act plays such as "Thirst" (1914), "The Dreamy Kid" (1919), and "The Emperor Jones" (1920), at once unbelievable, riveting, clichéd, politically astute, and bizarre.
The techniques that Aum used—isolating people in cells, subjecting them to physical duress and sleep deprivation, making them shave their heads and cast off their old identities, telling them to empty their minds and endlessly repeat mystical chants—have been used by countless other groups throughout history to break down resistance to the leader's will.
In films like "Diamonds of the Night" (1964) and "A Report on the Party and the Guests" (1966), which brought him to the attention of American audiences when it was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1968, he explored the primal urge for freedom and the ways in which human beings, under duress, cope with life's obstacles.
It's far too early to tell what kind of stamp she might put on the character, and in the premiere she sometimes seems to be doing an imitation of Mr. Capaldi or his predecessor Matt Smith — one thing Mr. Chibnall has carried over from Mr. Moffat is the Doctor's clipped, telegraphic dialogue in moments of duress.

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