(n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
(n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
(n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
(n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
(n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
(n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
(n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
(n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(3) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(4) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(5) For many it had still a moderating effect on distress at the present but appeared to be mainly used out of "psychological dependence".
(6) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(7) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(8) The lavage model was considered suitable for reproduction of severe respiratory distress.
(9) Twenty-seven infants with respiratory distress and hypoxemia of noncardiac etiology were treated with tolazoline.
(10) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
(11) Four hours after infusion, the animals displayed a clinical and pathological pattern which closely resembled post-traumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome, including hypoxia, hypocarbia, thrombocytopenia, increased pulmonary capillary permeability to albumin, interstitial edema, hypertrophy of alveolar lining cells, and intra-alveolar hemorrhage.
(12) In turn, nursing strategies that are selected as a result of such theoretically based assessments are likely to be effective in preventing spiritual distress.
(13) There is no support in the system and it’s a very frightening and distressing situation to be in.
(14) Therefore, after head injuries we searched for C activation because it could result in the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
(15) It has to be assumed that in calves with respiratory distress syndrome--in analogy to pulmonary immaturity--the blood clotting mechanism is not yet fully developed.
(16) At birth, the animals were in no distress but had mild pulmonary hypertension.
(17) If these recordings are repeated before or at the same time as other signs of fetal distress have been found we must think of pathological features such as intrauterine growth retardation, post-maturity, infections, rhesus incompatibility and diabetes.
(18) Sustained intubation (7 days) was necessary in only two infants because of developing respiratory distress as a result of prematurity or recurrent pleural fluid accumulation.
(19) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
(20) The results do not indicate any disorder in liver and muscle functions in prematurely born calves with or without respiratory distress syndrome.
Duress
Definition:
(n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
(n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
(v. t.) To subject to duress.
Example Sentences:
(1) We do not have the capacity, we’re doing this under duress as it is with the goodwill on both sides of politics, to get a timeframe.
(2) Hicks's lawyers had argued their client could not be sued under Australia's criminal profit law because the conditions at Guantanamo amounted to duress.
(3) We will certainly extend the investigations to include one or two of the bus’s passengers,” he said, adding that police were already following up 14 charges, including breach of assembly rules and use of duress.
(4) Last year, 85-year-old Korean war veteran Merrill Newman was held for a month and allowed to leave only after being filmed "confessing" to alleged crimes , which he later said was done under duress.
(5) It is very clear that the government is only doing this under great duress from [our] international creditors," he said.
(6) In previous instalments he has delivered his message under duress from behind a desk and wearing an orange jumpsuit.
(7) Paul Nuttall was elected leader of the Eurosceptic party on Monday following a unexpected resignation, a leadership statement signed “under duress” and a punch-up at the European parliament.
(8) Father Terry Hicks said his son’s plea deal should be viewed in the context of duress and torture at Guantánamo Bay.
(9) The regulator told Press TV last month that it was minded to ban it from broadcasting in the UK after the channel aired an interview with Maziar Bahari, an imprisoned Newsweek journalist, that had been conducted under duress.
(10) A Ukip source said James had filled in an official form to take over control of the party and added the words “under duress” in Latin.
(11) Following new guidelines from the sentencing council from the end of February those found to have bought drugs to share with friends rather than to profit from them, and those found to have imported drugs under duress, can expect to be locked up slightly less often, and for slightly less long.
(12) Does a vague law from 1789 – the so-called All Writs Act – give courts authority to make tech companies remake their products in times of duress?
(13) The previous white owner of the Gushungo dairy estate in Mazowe had reportedly been forced to sell it to Grace under duress.
(14) He claimed he was subject to beatings and torture in detention, this May telling the district court in Tangerang during his appeal that his genitals were repeatedly electrocuted to elicit a confession under duress.
(15) "Mr Bahari said that it would have been clear to all the broadcasters that he was giving the interview under duress," according to Ofcom's 10-page ruling.
(16) Writing was never something she did under duress, but because she chose to.
(17) Since the sociopolitical context in which the contest for defining Islam isn’t democratic, the actors in the drama have sought to violently impose their version of ‘true Islam’ on people, demanding their adherence under duress,” Ashraf wrote.
(18) But these sources are now being shopped by the company that offered to shield them (before it changed its mind under the duress of its own disgrace).
(19) He said after a first inspection that there was no indication that any of the newly-discovered works were plundered by the Nazis – either by being stolen from their Jewish owners or bought from them cheaply under duress.
(20) The writer Yu Jie, who fled overseas this January , said he only left under extreme duress that intensified when his friend Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2010.