Word: duress
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...Katz claim will hinge on whether they sold voluntarily or not. The family says it's clear: Any sale between German intermediaries and Jews during the war years was forced. But according to the rules of the Restitution Committee, only sales by individuals under duress made after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 are unquestionably considered involuntary. For dealers, the bar is higher, all the more so because they themselves often bought from other Jewish people desperate to flee. It is the original owners who are entitled to the disputed works, which is up to the Committee...
...lived in exile in London. He survived an assassination attempt by Ba'ath agents in 1978. But since his return to Iraq after the fall of Saddam, he has consistently argued that the entire party membership should not be criminalized. Many Iraqis joined the Ba'ath under duress, or because it was the only way to get jobs or advance careers...
...Maponya was always careful to stay on the right side of the law, even if it meant fudging the truth. Arrested on suspicion of funding ANC student fighters, a charge of which he now admits he was guilty, he escaped a sentence by claiming he made payments under duress. But Maponya developed a taste for provocation and pushing the system to its limits. He bought a home in an affluent Johannesburg suburb when he was meant to be confined to the townships. At the Jockey Club, he dressed his (white) jockeys in black, gold and green - the colors...
...Sometimes I overestimate my ability to function under duress with less than enough sleep. We all have trouble sleeping. Do you have trouble sleeping?" And then Willis moves on to something else, and I think that, maybe, actually, Bruce Willis knows that I know he might be lying, and he respects me enough not to pretend he's not. We're both men who understand that I have to ask him something that requires a lie, and he has to deliver that...
...almost no support from my program in terms of helping me get through the year as a female scholar with a baby who was in financial duress,” she said...