duress 的定义
- 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.
duress 近义词
threat, hardship
更多duress例句
- 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 duress.
- She was brought to me, and put in duress under charge of the division surgeon until her companion could be secured.
- Often they treated agreements entered into with the Order as contracts signed under duress.
- So Sir Percival performed that adventure of setting free the duress of the castle of Beaurepaire.
- No one who has any regard for freedom of elections can look upon these governments, forced upon them in duress, with any favor.