Sentences with phrase «duress at»

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

Miller routinely put Josh Rosen under duress at UCLA — and often got him killed.

Not exact matches

At least Anita Hill, albeit under duress, came forward with her charges, risking popular opprobrium and inviting feminist celebritydom, both of which she received.

So at a time of extreme duress, you found the only coping mechanism that kept you from eating a bullet.

Mark, those «negotiations» under duress are coercion and not real negotiations at all.

Under duress of this theodicy, loyal Jews argued back from good fortune to good morals and from ill fortune to evil morals, and thereby found themselves at last in a position where theological theory and the facts of experience were in headlong collision.

This allows the body's nervous system to fire at full speed while under duress and increases its ability to output greater power.

As any unconditional surrender is likely at least partially due to duress.

But as far as I know, the duress argument does not work at all for state parties.

The frown is epic, and when a smile creeps in at Osborne's forced jokes, it looks strained and under extreme duress.

The trial - within - trial which commenced at the last sitting, October 6, saw the principal witness, Sini Omar, denying taking the statements of the accused persons under duress as he told the court that, all the statements were given voluntarily and conducted in a professional manner.

But not everyone is buying Odell's version of this story, particularly not former tourism director, Valerie Hickman, who resigned back in February, but made it quite clear at the time that she was doing so under duress.

Remember, Obama's 2008 bid was never explicitly about electing the first black president — he avoided mentioning race at all except under duress — it was about «Hope» and «Change.»

The men also had lower levels of the stress - related hormone cortisol while under duress, the researchers reported at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago last October.

Imagine voice and facial recognition sensors and software at an ATM refusing you access to your account because you look and sound under duress.

A correlation between such mental duress and diabetes - related autoimmune activity has been established in studies at Linköping University.

Fourteen stitches at Bellevue later, she is on the street again, shooting up, shoplifting, chatting aimlessly with Mike (Buddy Duress), a motormouth drug dealer who may really care for her.

Throughout her career, Bigelow has reveled in the power wielded by good and bad strong - people at the expense of the masses, though the power dynamics of K - 19 are less ambiguous than inconsistent, so as to serve a formulaic narrative of male bonding under 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

In portraying the difficulty with which Sam stands astride two worlds, increasingly at odds, the movie doesn't implicitly choose a side, and the audience is the ultimate winner in the adaptation of this unlikely true story, which richly captures all the befuddlement of youth, albeit in some circumstances of extreme duress.

It's an apt choice, as Chazelle shares Dassin's procedural fascination with men at work, those who demonstrate their finesse and expertise under duress.

GOOD TIME Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Written by: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie Cast: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Buddy Duress Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 7/13/17 Opens: August 11, 2017

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

If the debt was settled for face value, that tells people reading your report that, well, you were very late and only paid under duress, but at least you did make good on the debt in full.

Now they tell me her card has to stay at 7.99 % for 2 years, then the variable rate, even though we BOTH changed to that rate only under duress, and we BOTH want our old rates back!

Everyone talks about some combination of 1) owning part share in a quality business, 2) buying good companies at good prices, 3) finding moats, 4) insisting on discounts / margins of safety, and 5) making contrarian bets (buying stocks under duress).

I've heard tales of players being robbed at gunpoint or forced into looting dangerous locales under duress; people sacrificing their friends to the horde so that they can escape.

I am no FPS aficionado (that is another blog for another day), but there seems to have been an ever continuing shift towards the campaign modes of the biggest FPS franchises amounting to little more than an afterthought; ever more shorter, repetitive and less imaginative missions tagged on under duress as even the biggest games companies would find it a tad too difficult to charge full price for a product that, at its core, is essentially an updated maps pack.

We looked at a lot of movies and books that modeled what happens to a small group of people under extreme duress — Band of Brothers, Alien (s), The Thing.

The art museum and educational centre Scaulager has a staggeringly brilliant collection of contemporary art of the highest quality — Their latest show features USA art star Matthew Barney [25-3-67] and is entitled - Prayer Sheet With the Wound And The Nail — The show references his drawing restraint series — Barney's mark making under severe performative duress is presented in sculpture, video and drawings — I was very impressed with his recent show at Sadie Coles gallery — his drawings [in a Beuysian style] continue to improve and develop.

Our last exhibition To Believe at La MaMa La Galleria showcased work exploring the turn towards ritual and spirituality artists under duress can take, whether disease, financial or other distress.

Even if you say or do something under duress, that counts only at sentencing, not at assessing the validity or guilt of what one says or does.

The Court of Appeal ruled that even if the Criminal Code prohibits the defence of duress, it is available at common law.

Provocation and Duress — The presence of some provocation or duress may be relevant at sentencing to reduce the moral blameworthiness of the offDuress — The presence of some provocation or duress may be relevant at sentencing to reduce the moral blameworthiness of the offduress may be relevant at sentencing to reduce the moral blameworthiness of the offender.

There are cases when prenuptial agreements need to be challenged as they are clearly unconscionable, signed under duress, and / or full disclosure was not provided at the time of signing.

«(c) that either the party to the marriage did not validly consent to it, whether in consequence of duress, mistake, unsoundness of mind or otherwise; (d) that at the time of the marriage either party, though capable of giving a valid consent, was suffering (whether continuously or intermittently) from mental disorder within the meaning of [the Mental Health Act 1983] of such a kind or to such an extent as to be unfitted for marriage.»

As noted by Justice Berger in his dissenting opinion, at para. 27, it was conceded by the Crown Attorney that she was, ``... pressured through manipulation short of duress.»

-- The prenup is not in writing: For a prenuptial agreement to be valid, it must be a written document, witnessed by outside parties — At least one party provided false information: The inclusion of untruthful information or even incomplete information will render a prenuptial agreement invalid — Pressure, duress or coercion: If one party forces the other to sign a prenuptial agreement, regardless of whom the document most benefits, it will be invalid — The prenup was not read: If one or the other spouse does not read the prenuptial agreement, it is possible the document could be challenged — Improper execution: To be valid, the agreement must be read and signed by both parties before the marriage occurs — Gross unfairness: While a prenuptial agreement gives the couple a great deal of flexibility in how they establish financial rights, the court may decide not to enforce the prenup if it is grossly unfair to one of the parties

Whether minor or severe, injuries from car accidents can cause major stress and financial duress, and the car accident personal injury attorneys at Altman & Altman LLP are here 24/7 to help you through it.

Under the duress of our more formal battery rundown test, which entails looping a video off local storage with the screen brightness fixed at 50 percent, the Note 10.1 held out for a solid eight hours.

Skilled at interacting with people from different social backgrounds with a keen ability to work well under high duress.

• Track record of success developing and implementing loss prevention strategies to suit a wide variety of incident complexity • Demonstrated ability to detect deficiencies resulted in loss and implement corrective measures • Well versed in detecting unusual incidents and perform investigative measures to ensure prevention of possible loss • Special talent for safely apprehending and detaining suspected shoplifters and performing rites rituals • Proven record of using surveillance and radio equipment to assist in handling loss prevention and investigative duties • Clear thinking, aimed at exercising good judgement when tailing suspicious persons or investigating doubtful situations • Strong observation and critical thinking skills aimed at analyzing potentially detrimental situations • Demonstrated ability to sense suspicious behavior and actions and handle adverse situations in an authoritative manner • Able to react non-emotionally during times of extreme duress with a great ability to stay focused on the job • Exceptional ability to conduct bag checks and tagging duties in accordance to company policies and procedures

[10] As the provision of housing is conditional upon agreeing to a lease, Indigenous land owners may be negotiating at a disadvantage and under duress.

Duress or fraud, which means that at the time of the marriage a spouse is unable to make a valid marital contract and therefore the marriage is invalid.

Sometimes therapy begins under duress, at the direction and control of family, a spouse, an employer, or a court.

Might make his job easier, too, and even serve to protect your family under duress and related stress at your passing.