Constructs in quantitative research. High quality quantitative dissertations are able to clearly bring together theory, constructs and variables. Broadly speaking, constructs are the building blocks of theories, helping to explain how and why certain phenomena behave the way that they do.
In Virginia, duress is defined as the overbearing of a person's free will by an unlawful or wrongful act or by threat such that the party's consent to a contractual agreement is involuntary.. Or, consider these words of Chief Justice Robert Gross of the District Court of Appeal of Florida in Francaville:
Definition of buttress. 1  transitive verb. 2  architecture : to give support or stability to (a wall or building) with a projecting structure of masonry or wood : to furnish or shore up with a buttress (see 1buttress 1); also : support, strengthen arguments buttressed by solid facts.