Word: duress
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...caused him considerable anguish since October, when he was first called before the grand jury here. He has had to engage a lawyer full-time, and he has spent countless hours haggling out responses to the government's repeated attempts to force testimony from him. The resultant mental duress has no doubt affected Popkin's work as a professor and a scholar, and the delays the government investigation has caused him in completing a book could diminish his chances for tenure...
...MUJIBUR RAHMAN. I plan to release him unconditionally in a couple of days, with hope and faith that the fire of Pakistan still burns in his heart. He will be free to go. I am not extracting any promise from him. I'm not talking to him under duress, but between elected leaders of the two parts of Pakistan. From one end of the spectrum to the other, an extremely loose arrangement could be worked out, but at least the name of Pakistan must remain. It's our legacy of 1,000 years...
Prior to the formation of the broadly-based regime to organize elections, the parties will settle the question, of political prisoners and political rights. All persons held under duress will be free to return to their homes and to pursue their livelihoods...
...such items as interest payments and dividends to U.S. corporations tipped the overall balance the other way, to a deficit for Canada of $60 million). The pact contains so-called "transitional" safeguards for Canada that Washington is now anxious to abolish. Ottawa is willing to negotiate but not under duress...
...Eulogy. He was anything but melancholy. A visiting poet friend later wrote: "Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned. The moment our eyes met his, community was established. Everything corporeal became subject to a new order, irradiated by beauty. What reigned here was not pressure and duress, but utter freedom...