under compulsion

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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

Honor had disregarded it also, as a contract signed under compulsion by the leaders against the will of the majority; she felt that it was in no sense binding on the Dutch as a whole.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills