He said Jordanian law bans the use of torture and reliance on statements extracted under duress.
Even the bedrock of investing theories related to portfolios has come under duress.
In states with anti-conversion laws, credible allegations of conversion under duress have very rarely been made.
Government lawyers had stressed that Jordan had banned torture and the use in trial of statements extracted under duress.
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The UN report suggests that this witness's original testimony was corroborated by others and retracted under duress.
This was followed by the release of various disturbing videos showing the men making statements, possibly under duress.
Her words were echoed by several opposition leaders, who said they believed Mr Okruashvili had given testimony under duress.
As an individual not under duress she chooses what she wants to do or where she wants to be.
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Changhong sued in a U.S. court last year, hoping to enforce the agreements that Apex said were signed under duress.
Under duress (say, a cramped airline seat) you could still get stuff done, but it wouldn't be the comfiest viewing experience.
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"No, what he is doing is under duress and he should not not lose his job, " said one of the other men.
But for years, many of them have sought compensation anyway, arguing that an agreement made under duress at gunpoint is not valid.
That Cyprus itself was expected (under duress) to enact the deposit tax is almost irrelevant, since the Troika is really running this show.
But Washington went even further, getting KPMG--under duress--to agree not to pay the legal fees of its officials whom the feds were pursuing.
Mr Nasheed, the country's first democratic president, claims he was forced to quit under duress after soldiers and police mutinied in the capital.
Indeed, most of his wealth still lies in his investment in Citigroup, made in 1990 at a time when the bank was under duress.
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Washington Mutual was also acquired by PwC audit client JPMorgan and Merrill Lynch was bought, under duress, by Bank of America, another PwC audit client.
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Having initially confessed in the belief that they would be repatriated to Britain, they have now withdrawn their statements, saying they were made under duress.
Thus the reader learns that President John Quincy Adams swam stark naked every day in the Potomac at 5am, and may have given his first interview under duress.
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And he will tell Tory MPs to stop bombarding Mr Cameron with demands, because it will look as if he is negotiating under duress for party, and not national, reasons.
Mrs Sandiford's lawyer, Esra Karo Karo Kaban, began his defence by saying she had no prior convictions and did not commit the crime willingly but was under duress from external parties.
During his lifetime all the wars the Prophet engaged in were between believers put under duress by non-believers, and he set the modality of settling differences among believers through consultation and mediation.
And when Shia authorities in Iraq issued a fatwa last year urging Muslims to defend the country against aggressors, scholars in exile were quick to dismiss the ruling as having been forced under duress.
However, an Ashmolean spokesman added: "There is no reason to suppose Mr Wellby ever knowingly acquired any object that he knew or had reason to believe to have been looted from or sold under duress by a Jewish family in the period of Nazi rule".
This situation is reminiscent of our bailouts of banks like Citigroup ( NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs ( NYSE:GS), AIG ( NYSE:AIG) and many others under duress from our central bank asserting that the United States had to cough up billions of taxpayer dollars or our economy would collapse.
Under extreme duress from Carl Icahn, and months of heavy shareholder and press criticism Aubrey capitulates.
Right now, I agree more with the pope for resigning when he has the capacity to do so under no duress.
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