under compulsion
Example Sentences
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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
They did it only under compulsion of the law.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2013
Not until I got here did I realize what you had done in telling your mother you had married me under compulsion.
From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie
