thrust upon

Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, was a retiring fellow who had politics thrust upon him, a pilot out of place in power.

Business owners act as if low wages are thrust upon them by circumstances they are powerless to resist.

The closed-door powwow promises to be an electrifying exercise in spleen venting, thrust upon them by their Senate brethren.

You could say that, unlike these other figures, Michael Jackson had his hybridity thrust upon him.

Great was the surprise of Alf at the honour and labour thus thrust upon him, but he did not shrink from it.

After all, Garnache's appearance was hardly suggestive of the role of Perseus which had been thrust upon him.

That's what you call having greatness thrust upon you, eh, Mole?

And it is we who have claimed half the world and thrust upon it an all but universal domination.

A total abstainer, I had, I am thankful to say, strength enough to resist the temptation thus adroitly thrust upon me.