How To Use Duress In A Sentence
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At a preparatory hearing he raised possible defences of duress, necessity and public interest.
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They admitted that they gave false evidence, but said that they were under duress, having been threatened with violence by various men, one of whom was in the public gallery at the original trial.
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She had gone to that bungaloid mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb certain she would find her patient kept under duress, perhaps even physically a prisoner, possibly maltreated, and she had been prepared to call the police and tell them here was someone detained against his will.
Portobello
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But it is his characters, men and women who are forced to find their humanity amid extreme suffering and duress, who make this book memorable.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a few bright shopkeepers had actually sussed that more people actually went into their shops to look, and then maybe buy, if they weren't being menaced under duress to do so.
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He does not impose Himself by force, nor does He claim people under duress.
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Leaves attacked by insects or disease, on the other hand, die under duress, spotted and curled.
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What I am interested in is determining which stance provides the best all-around control, under duress, using a defensive handgun without benefit of compensators, ports or other gadgets.
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The other players are picked from Western Canada based upon their adeptness, and general conduct as well as their ability to perform under mental and physical duress.
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One important issue is when an apparent consent will be vitiated because it was given under duress or without full knowledge of the material facts.
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He thought her confession had been made under duress.
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He signed the confession under duress .
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Holmes J. considered that in these circumstances the payment was made under duress.
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Since I don't watch TV anymore - except under extreme duress - I don't know what the network airheads and cable morons have done with the story.
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Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.
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#542 – “In that part of the world, (Middle East) you have to rule with an iron fist†¦ Though, compared to some other countries around there, and the “new and improved Bush version†fewer people were in duress or being subjected to murder.”
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At the end of the day, your Honours, the issue was whether or not a person who is not an employee can bring proceedings for the contravention of statutory duress.
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Some security firms have systems whereby staff can signal that they are acting under duress by dropping pre-arranged and seemingly innocuous words into their conversation.
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They ruled that if defendants could show they were acting out of necessity or under duress the jury had the right to hear them out.
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The errors of Liberius and Honorius were not that they taught false doctrine, but that Liberius, under great duress, signed an ambiguous formula while indicating that the formula is to be understood in an orthodox sense, and that Honorius, while not a Monothelete himself, did not condemn Monotheletism when he should have.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
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Under duress from Adeline, Amy had done a dull stint of selling tombola tickets.
THE WHITE DOVE
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If there is one message from what's happened, it is that when this Government is in a jam, it volunteers little except under duress.
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These are skills that wilt in the heat of the race if duress has not become habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.
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He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.
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I state here, unequivocally and for the record, that any documents presented to me by US law enforcement agents were signed and initialled under duress, thus rendered legally contested in validity.
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A brief review of the law indicates that a contract claimed to be entered under duress or undue influence is voidable, not void; it may be ratified by subsequent conduct.
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This is the cornerstone that must be laid carefully or the building will fall under the slightest duress.
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Under duress it may flee and hide, but it can only do this occasionally.
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You can't get somebody to do something by force, by duress, by overcoming their will.
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Duress has been recognised as a general defence to all crimes except treason and murder.
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You have not been drugged, you are not watching under duress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only important proviso is that such talks must be held in an atmosphere free from threat or duress.
The World Around Us
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Clogs are heavy, clunky, and fall off under duress.
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If you meet a fatigued and distressed junior doctor in the next few weeks it is more than likely that much of their duress was entirely avoidable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why, for example, were 400 people crammed under duress onto a leaky boat that, even if it were seaworthy, could carry no more than 150 people in safety?
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Well, the Romans executed him on the mountain, but they did it under duress and the pressure of Jewish leaders, who hated him, not because of the cure he offered but because of the indictment.
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In that part of the world, you have to rule with an iron fist … Though, compared to some other countries around there, and the “new and improved Bush version” fewer people were in duress or being subjected to murder.
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Any defendant may plead the defence of duress to a charge that they have committed a criminal offence other than murder, attempted murder or treason.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any defendant may plead the defence of duress to a charge that they have committed a criminal offence other than murder, attempted murder or treason.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are skills that wilt in the heat of the race if duress has not become habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Military experts point out that that code of conduct is a moral guide, not a legal guide, and that statements made under duress or torture are rarely punished or reprimanded.
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It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive.
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A brief review of the law indicates that a contract claimed to be entered under duress or undue influence is voidable, not void; it may be ratified by subsequent conduct.
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These are skills that wilt in the heat of the race if duress has not become habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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My wife was forced under extreme duress to sign consent orders which are not in the best interests of the children.
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Under duress, the editors published an apology calling the republication of the column "an editorial misjudgment.
Religious Wars
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The confession was obtained under duress.
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From what I have heard information extracted under duress is inherently suspect because people will say anything to relieve the duress – note I am not trying to define torture but only duress.
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I do not turn to Clarissa in times of duress, but then I am an unregenerate reader, too enthralled by Lovelace's legerdemain to linger over Richardson's edifying sentiments.
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You made no financial benefit from this and you did it under duress and threats were made to your family.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chief criminals shall be punished without fail, those who are accomplices under duress shall go unpunished and those who perform deeds of merit shall be rewarded.
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He suggested that his apparent support for official policy was obtained under duress.
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There is, of course, no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered.
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As stated above, generally speaking, necessity is a broader heading than duress.
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His smile was charming, and his eyes bright and winsome, and with his aura came an atmosphere of leisure accompanied by a tinge of duress.
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He is paid to make those calls and must be allowed to make them free of outside influence or duress.
The Sun
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Others even suggest that advocacy organizations have paid women to say they signed permissions under duress.
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And anon as he was unarmed a good man came and set him down by him and said: Sir, I shall tell you what betokeneth all that ye saw in the tomb; for that covered body betokeneth the duresse of the world, and the great sin that Our Lord found in the world.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The intelligence gained under duress would be of doubtful value and immensely costly to the integrity of democratic governments.
Times, Sunday Times
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In times of duress a CEO quickly learns the meaning of all the boilerplate terms and conditions in the preferred-stock agreements, particularly the antidilution clauses.
HIGH TECH START UP
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Most interrogators will tell you that torture or physical coercion produces only bad information - that a prisoner under duress will say anything to end the pain.
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It may sound unfashionably Corinthian but sport's best lesson to young people is control and grace under duress.
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confessed under duress
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These are skills that wilt in the heat of the race if duress has not become habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.
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Freedom from duress is held essential to a binding contract so that this very power of the strong may not be exercised over the weak.
The Open Shop; What Is It? Why Should It Prevail?
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Duress has been recognised as a general defence to all crimes except treason and murder.
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But she said that while both parties consented to arranged marriages, forced unions were made under duress.
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“Though, compared to some other countries around there, and the “new and improved Bush version†fewer people were in duress or being subjected to murder.”
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As a defensive matter that is excusable, the duress has its own rationality.
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Still, making a guy beat-off under gunplay duress is fun.
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The resignation of the President is not constitutional because he did that under duress and threat.
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Of course I am not speaking of contracts induced by fraud, duress, or undue influence, or impeachable on any other recognized ground of invalidity.
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Firstly, he picked them up, and secondly, only turned around under duress.
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I come to her she will not believe me, but put me in duresse as I were a faitour.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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After all, his duress is worth more than the 2100+ lost.
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They only do it under extreme duress.
The Sun
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He told this correspondent that he did not concede that it was withdrawn under duress, because of the agitation mounted by the communal organisations but described it as an appropriate step.
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Again my mother had accepted this under extreme duress.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Under pain or duress, we do whatever we can to cope with the discomfort and justify its causes.
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The past two decades have seen businesses globalising mostly under duress.
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Also in his own statement (made on two occasions), he stated that he cupped the match whilst the fuse was being lit - albeit he considered that he made this statement under duress.
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Attorneys later took up his appeal on the grounds that he had surrendered his rights under duress.
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Though the church consistently backed the state under communism, it clearly did so under duress and the threat of increased persecution.
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If it were donkeys carrying the bags then animal welfare groups all over the world would be up in arms about the cruelty, yet we expect these caddies to lug the bag and to get yardages then make a club choice under duress.
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The intelligence gained under duress would be of doubtful value and immensely costly to the integrity of democratic governments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course I am not speaking of contracts induced by fraud, duress, or undue influence, or impeachable on any other recognized ground of invalidity.
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Duress alarm shall be provided for users who might be the target of coercion.
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In fact, the country now has no leverage on, or better negotiation position in comparison with its creditors, to force them acquiesce to such a strategy or accept it under duress.
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There was no improper pressure by the revenue and in particular there was no duress.
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Certain features will remain constant: that we have vulnerable bodies, are mortal, are capable of acquiring new skills, that we are deceivable and vulnerable to duress.
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He completed 18-of-30 passes for 211 yards and an interception as he was under constant duress from the defense.
NCAA Football - Texas-El Paso vs. New Mexico
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To conclude, while from the sister's words he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such duress now testified once more to the mercy as well as to the bounty of the Supreme Being.
Ulysses
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Economic duress is unlikely to lead to the vitiation of banking transactions.
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Duress has been recognised as a general defence to all crimes except treason and murder.
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The need to keep cool under duress is further tested when her boss (Patricia Clarkson) hires a sous chef, Nick (Aaron Eckhart).
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This coincides with the current division in the law as represented by the twin doctrines of undue influence and economic duress.
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On the one hand, if it can be established that money is paid over by duress or compulsion, it is recoverable.
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Maybe they were under duress, either directly manifested or social, to be seen celebrating.
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There was certainly nobody sent home under duress.
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Most of the few cars that pass are American relics of the Batista era, battered but much restored; they rattle and wheeze like beasts of burden driven forward under duress.
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These are skills that wilt in the heat of the race if duress has not become habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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WE command you that, justly and without delay, you cause to be replevied Anthony Burns, of Boston, in our said county, laborer, who (as it is said) is taken and detained at Boston, within our said county, by the duress of Charles F. Suttle, of
Anthony Burns : a history,
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In February of the following year the Sioux, under duress, relinquished their claim to the Black Hills.
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In fact, experience shows that intelligence extracted by duress is often flawed.
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To conclude, while from the sister’s words he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such duress now testified once more to the mercy as well as to the bounty of the Supreme Being.
Ulysses
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The most obvious examples are forgery, duress or mistake as to the nature of the form being signed (non est factum).
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It's excruciating to watch someone so young, who probably should be free of such pressure, clearly suffering under duress.
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RANDOLFO MENDOZA: If the interrogee or the briefee is under duress, you can expect that the information is also a manipulated one.
CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2002
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Defences such as duress or provocation may be analysed in the expectation of laying bare the rules which apply.
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He has claimed that he was talking under duress, an assertion that seems at odds with his relaxed demeanour in the video published on a tabloid website.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the circumstances giving rise to the duress subside, they must return to law abidance as soon as reasonably practicable.
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Friends of the sisters admitted to the press that the girls only went to the wedding under duress to support their father and left only when they thought it was polite to do so…
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Today there is much overlap with the common law principle of duress as this principle has subsequently been developed.
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Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress.
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Mental duress is often worse than physical duress, and their lack of information about us was one of the many hardships our families had to endure throughout those many years.
Sandvick, Robert J.
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There were a lot of stories around before the election that people were urged to vote under duress.
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They carry their load, working as a team, and I just know that they would not have been party to any ‘no air syndrome’, unless put under duress by some malevolent fish.
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William's claim was strengthened when Harold, shipwrecked on the coast of Normandy, promise to support William's claim - albeit under some duress.
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That their plunge might stimulate Methuen to burn his boots and brave the turgid waters of the Modder, was the fervent wish of Kimberley at the end of fourteen weeks of irksome, emaciating duress.
The Siege of Kimberley
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If I have it out and put it back in the holster under some duress I want it to stay put in case it goes from a gunfight to a fistfight and back to a gunfight.
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We all know the commitments were entered into under duress, with teachers threatening to effectively shut down the system and block exams.