Sentences with word «duress»

The Ontario Court of Appeal has dispelled any doubts about the availability of the defence of duress in murder cases under the common law.

There are some critical illnesses which put you under financial duress as you are rendered incapable to work and earn.

In fact, under such circumstances, the compliant fiancé can claim that he or she did not have sufficient time to consider the prenup and was under extreme duress when signing it — in this case, the compliant spouse could have a very strong case for having the prenup overturned.

We won't put you through the emotional duress of things like Terms of Endearment, but we certainly can't omit some of the greater cathartic films.

STARRING Robert Pattinson as CONSTANCE «CONNIE» NIKAS Jennifer Jason Leigh as COREY Ben Safdie as NICK NIKAS Barkhad Abdi as DASH Buddy Duress as RAY Taliah Webster as CRYSTAL

The resiliency of the technology will emerge while under duress from the Chinese government.

Three minutes into US Airways Flight 1549, Sully and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) had to make life - or - death decisions under extreme duress as their plane lost power.

She held that a prenuptial agreement must be entered into without duress or coercion.

A claim of this kind can help you and your family avoid financial duress for unexpected expenses.

If you have a federally backed student loan, the government has many payment options available during times of economic duress, including unemployment.

It found Wife was not under duress when she executed the agreement.

Stood guard at stationary posts which included monitoring closed - circuit television, duress alarm systems and other security equipment.

After being placed under duress on Wednesday, the market demonstrated bullish resiliency, as it recovered to set new highs.

The historical imagery and references we uncovered showed New York was really like an old - world city in great duress: very dirty, very dingy, and very neglected.»

I have mostly recovered but under much duress from doctors, friends and family.

While Senator Gipson and his Senate colleagues have done absolutely zero to address the cost of mandates and rising property taxes in the Hudson Valley, Sue Serino has worked to reduce costs and taxes in Duchess County under the fiscal duress of Albany imposed mandates.»

The law has being clarified in the following Court of Appeal case which stands for the proposition that parties must disclose any prior legal advice on the same subject matter if they claim duress without legal advice (2015 BCCA 52).

, a Special Operations Executive agent, and is written under duress at Gestapo HQ in the town of Ormaie in November 1943.

They move a portion to cash, hedge, or a combination thereof during market duress.

Tip One: Recognize that marital duress typically takes missteps from both partners.

The latter said its apology was «being written under duress because I don't have enough money to fight a legal battle against the Trump machine.»

To test the hypothesis that self - injurious behavior (SIB) signals an attempt to cope with psychological distress that may co-occur or lead to suicidal behaviors in individuals experiencing more duress than they can effectively mitigate.

God doesn't use duress or threats to make us love him.

Hormonal imbalances cause symptoms such as, intense pelvic pain and bleeding, insomnia, irritability, breast tenderness, bloating, water retention, weight gain, hair loss, libido fluctuation, vaginal dryness and atrophy, mental duress with family, friend, and life seems to be less than ideal when your hormones are not fully available.

I know who should be held accountable when tests cause undue duress in students, students are put into unrealistic pressure - cooker, toxic learning environments, student needs go unmet due to diverting finances to untested standards, students lose months of instructional time due to state - imposed distraction — all this to the full knowledge and concern of school superintendents, etc, etc

When those last semesters arrive, students often show duress and are all too willing to shift their focus on new goals, projects, and yes, employment.

Second, was any form of duress involved?

However, you should never feel undue pressure to accept a truly low offer, unless you are under considerable duress due to time or economic constraints.

For all its genre trappings, this is an intelligent, probing study of an ordinary woman under extraordinary duress.

Grade: B - Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Screenwriter: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Cast: Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry - Jones, Necro, Buddy Duress Screened at: Review, NYC, 4/30/15 Opens: May 29, 2015

We like the company's diversification across the retail sector and believe management will continue to conservatively manage the business to keep it protected during times of unexpected duress.

Challenging his audience emotionally and psychologically, von Trier's oeuvre has focused predominantly on female characters suffering incredible social duress.

Whereas artist run centres are always under duress due to their «not for profit» status, there placement as public artist driven organizations also give them their vibrancy, their ability to respond, adapt, question and constantly challenge themselves to «support innovation and experimentation... facilitating the presentation, interpretation, and production of contemporary visual, time - based and interdisciplinary arts.»

Compensation can be the financial lifeline you need to cope with injuries, economic hardship, and emotional duress following your accident.

This is called an «affirmative defense,» wherein a lawyer will try to prove that their defendant was forced into the crime, either through duress or the threat of bodily injury (entrapment).

Before the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Ryan, Greenspan helped redefine the scope of the defence of duress now available to all accused.

If governments let the financial sector foreclose, they will end up being forced to privatize the public domain under duress conditions at distress prices.

I have written this chapter under the internal duress of respect for the communicative process.

It begins with a breakup, a breathless, wordless prologue in which Michelle (Winstead), under serious duress, is frantically packing up and piling into her car to get away from her unseen boyfriend.

Thus freedom has nothing to do with yielding to external duress but rather has everything to do with the process of a butterfly getting rid of its cocoon in order to soar upwards.

In a moment of duress Capone had obviously thought of Walker; I thought that Walker would have returned the favor by thinking of Capone.