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Definition of Duress
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Duress
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense. To subject to duress. Related Definitions:
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Duress Quotations
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. Henry A. Kissinger What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it. Robert Jay Lifton I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album. Matthew Perry |
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