Ukraine would also have to agree to a deal — though it might be made to do so, under duress, if the United States cuts military aid.
On Monday, France’s Culture minister Roselyne Bachelot announced that the French government will take steps to return a painting by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of its owner more than 80 years after it was sold under duress during World War II.
The painting’s original Austrian-Jewish owner, Nora Stiasny, was killed in Poland in 1942. She was forced to sell Klimt’s Rosiers sous les arbres (Roses Under the Trees), circa 1905, an abstracted landscape featuring an apple tree, follow……
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But almost no one doubts that Ms. Redgrave inspired her daughter as well. Like her mother, Ms. Richardson was known for disappearing into a role, for not capitalizing on her looks and for being drawn to characters under duress.
noun [U] FORMAL
threats used to force a person to do something:
He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.
Constraint by threat; coercion: confessed under duress.
Law.
Coercion illegally applied.
Forcible confinement.
[Middle English duresse, harshness, compulsion, from Old French durece, hardness, from Latin dūritia, from dūrus, hard.]
duchy
n., pl., -ies.
The territory ruled by a duke or duchess; a dukedom.
[Middle English duchie, from Old French duche, from Medieval Latin ducātus, from Latin dux, duc-, leader. See duke.]
fit out
Also, fit up. Equip or supply what is needed, as in They promised to fit out the expedition free of charge. This expression, dating from the late 1600s, originally was confined to furnishing a ship or other vessel with supplies, repairs, and the like. By the 1720s it was being used more broadly, as it still is.
But almost no one doubts that Ms. Redgrave inspired her daughter as well. Like her mother, Ms. Richardson was known for disappearing into a role, for not capitalizing on her looks and for being drawn to characters under duress.
duress
noun [U] FORMAL
threats used to force a person to do something:
He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.
Constraint by threat; coercion: confessed under duress.
Law.
Coercion illegally applied.
Forcible confinement.
[Middle English duresse, harshness, compulsion, from Old French durece, hardness, from Latin dūritia, from dūrus, hard.]
- 発音記号[djuərés | djuər-]
n., pl., -ies.
The territory ruled by a duke or duchess; a dukedom.
[Middle English duchie, from Old French duche, from Medieval Latin ducātus, from Latin dux, duc-, leader. See duke.]
fit out
Also, fit up. Equip or supply what is needed, as in They promised to fit out the expedition free of charge. This expression, dating from the late 1600s, originally was confined to furnishing a ship or other vessel with supplies, repairs, and the like. By the 1720s it was being used more broadly, as it still is.
runaway
(rŭn'ə-wā')
n.
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- Informal. An easy victory.
- Escaping or having escaped restraint, captivity, or control: runaway horses; runaway children.
- Out of control: a runaway car; runaway inflation.
- Easily won: a runaway victory.
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