under compulsion
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We appreciate your hard work, whether you work under compulsion or out of personal conviction.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
What about those who refuse to recant or hide their true beliefs under compulsion, choosing to suffer or die instead?
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2015
The authors didn’t envisage the risk that if employees were working under compulsion, they would be less likely to be engaged, let alone passionate, in its pursuit.
From Forbes ● Oct. 14, 2014
The diary exudes confession under compulsion – of imminent death, the fear of retribution in the afterlife, perhaps – but there is nothing of genuine atonement in it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
But Francis had no intention of keeping the promises which had been wrung from him under compulsion, and he secretly resolved to break faith with the emperor as soon as he regained his liberty.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne
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