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

Given the complexity of that feat, experts and American government officials have said that experienced aviators, possibly one or both of the pilots on the plane, were likely to be involved, willingly or under compulsion.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2014

One or two of them had indeed been adopted—such, for instance, as the recommendation that Post Office servants should cease to deal in newspapers—but only under compulsion.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert