forced upon
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Three years before Mauritius’s independence in 1968, the U.K. split off the archipelago to create a new entity called the British Indian Overseas Territory, in a deal that Mauritians now claim was forced upon them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
And while the city put together a robust response to the crisis, Adams had no desire to take credit for it, even when it was forced upon him by law.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025
Well that is the choice I forced upon my family, and they silently agreed and followed me,” he says.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024
“That conversation had to be forced upon them,” the lawyer said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024
I thought about tattoos, about the connection, about the tattoo on Ema’s back, the tattoo on Antoine’s face—and most horrifically, the Auschwitz concentration camp tattoo forced upon a young girl named Elizabeth Sobek.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
