Word: duress
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...Jonases understood my obsession with personal space.And thus the ironic love slowly became a little less ironic. Through it all, I reassured myself that at least I didn’t watch High School Musical. It was my last shred of dignity, Jonas be damned.So it was under duress that I was coerced into finally watching HSM. I steeled myself against it. “No matter how many times they sing in unison, do not get sucked in,” I told myself. “They are engineered by Disney. They’re all a little...
...fellow militants as being trained by the banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Pakistanis are suspicious of these claims. "There is simply not enough evidence at this point to blame Pakistan," says Najam Sethi, editor of the English political weekly, the Friday Times. "No statement made under duress can be counted as 100% fact, and you can imagine the conditions under which this confession was made...
...Kong is one of the world's more stressed-out cities. Life for its seven million residents is a tension-filled mix of long working hours, fierce career competition, and the constant pressure to make more money to survive high rents and costs. So in these times of economic duress, with plunging stock prices and rising unemployment, that stress can boil over. In October, Caritas, a social services organization, set up a special government-funded hotline to counsel those suffering from the economic downturn. In the first month, Caritas received more than 1,000 calls from Hong Kong citizens...
...these developments pain the family of Michelle Moore-Bosko. For their part, they do not believe the men invented their involvement under duress. For the family, every new press release about the Norfolk Four reopens old wounds. "Let my poor baby rest," her father, John Moore, told the Washington Post on Monday...
...surreal elements forcibly draw attention to the need for an expressive outlet in a world marked by such brutal pressure to conform.And indeed, the pressure to conform is brutal. The men in these stories (and every one is written from a masculine perspective) face the unrelenting duress of not bringing shame to their family, friends, work, or nation. Both ends of the spectrum are represented—the men who completely buy into the system and the men who try to fight against it. The narrator of “Farmer Airlines” decides to fly through a typhoon...