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With the health-care system under increasing duress and deaths surging, some say it was too little too late.
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While the courts admit wills made under certain kinds of duress, they also recognize more whimsical estate planning if the wording is unambiguous.
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It also is, though not technically about restaurants, the film that most holistically captures what a restaurant can be, and why they’re so vitally important, particularly in times of duress and to communities under threat.
A RESTAURATEUR RELUCTANTLY BECOMES A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER IN STEVE MCQUEEN’S BRILLIANT ‘MANGROVE’JOSHUA DAVID STEINDECEMBER 2, 2020EATER
Upon these grounds Panama claimed that she was a sovereign state temporarily under the duress of a superior government.
THE PANAMA CANALFREDERIC JENNINGS HASKIN
The social influences of Washington were called into polite requisition and the Mayor, under this duress, withdrew his sanction.
LINCOLN, THE POLITICIANT. AARON LEVY
A little smile escaped from the duress of Alma's lips and twitched her dimples.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY SHORT STORIES, 1907 TO 1908LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
The resistance of the woman must be to the utmost of her power, but if she yield through fear or duress it is still rape.
AIDS TO FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGYW. G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON
Where fraud or duress is used in obtaining a party's consent to a contract, the contract is at least voidable.
If one of the parties has obtained the apparent consent of the other by fear, coercion or duress.
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He was a mechanic, brought along under some duress to service the machine.
PAGAN PASSIONSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
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