duress
胁迫,逼迫,胁迫性,胁迫症
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Definitions
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- : compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- : Law. such constraint or coercion as will render void a contract or other legal act entered or performed under its influence.
- : forcible restraint, especially imprisonment.
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Examples
Yet opponents argue it would increase unemployment because higher wages would force small businesses, already under economic duress because of the pandemic, to lay off employees.
They subsisted on ammonia instead of water and could employ limited telepathic abilities under duress.
If you quit under duress, that’s one thing, but it sounds like you worked together and you repeatedly said no.
With the health-care system under increasing duress and deaths surging, some say it was too little too late.
While the courts admit wills made under certain kinds of duress, they also recognize more whimsical estate planning if the wording is unambiguous.
There were reports that she wanted to leave the show, and was acting under duress.
In moments of duress, a different self manifests with acts of destruction: unleashed id in Freudian, or Incredible Hulk, terms.
“Yes, he appears calm and collected but he is clearly stressed and doing this under duress,” the source says.
Under “fear, threats, and duress,” Egan says he signed the form, “a false declaration denying any childhood sexual abuse” by Doe.
“I wrote it under duress and hated the ending,” he said last week.
Charles the Ninth and Catharine had consented to publish a declaration denying Cond's allegation that they were held in .