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.
Quotes about duress (16 Quotes)
It takes time to learn the characteristics and chemistry needed, especially under duress. But we're getting there. We got a great start because we like each other and we hang out together.
The big drug companies are under duress on almost every front. There are challenges everywhere from generics, from the FDA, from managed care and from self-appointed public watchdogs criticizing the industry, and with attacks on direct-to-consumer advertising,
I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of credit...We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world, NO longer a Government by free opinion,NO longer a Government of conviction and vote of the majority,but, a Government by opinion and the duress of a small group of dominant men.
The Yankees had expected a difficult night against Wells, a free spirit who used to work in the Bronx, and has reputation of thriving under duress. We know he just lives for this type of situation, ... You have to be born with that need to compete.
They were under duress a large part of the time, so it's tough to evaluate. We didn't protect and they didn't have time. I thought Mike threw some good balls, and we had a couple of drops. We have to make those plays.
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to himwithout compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, 'I will do as you direct,' is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
We went without a middle linebacker. We went to a three-deep zone, and then occasionally we would go three-deep man-to-man. We put two speedsters on the line so we could get in the backfield and make them throw under duress. That made a difference.
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.
The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
For example, if a trafficked woman told a man who had paid to have sex with that she was engaged in prostitution under duress, then he could not reasonably believe she was freely consenting. To go ahead regardless would be rape.
The constant, of course, is Bryant, who disheartens defenses because he makes so many shots under duress. Kobe is the best tough-shot-maker in the game, ... It is very discouraging for a defense to have done something perfectly, then have him come along and make the shot anyway.
Once over there Balkans, I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.
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.
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
She was under extreme duress when she committed this crime. It was a desperate act, perhaps a cry for help.