| Along with the awful band at the next wedding or Bar Mitzvah you're dragooned into. |
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| When we were dragooned by the southern hemisphere into the professional era, nobody thought too much about the longer-term consequences. |
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| A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles. |
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| So Saturday last weekend I was dragooned into being a judge at a local school's speech contest. |
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| If I were dragooned tomorrow into teaching Western civ, I would raise my hand for the second semester, from Torquemada to Hitler. |
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| The politically innocent Dave is dragooned into impersonating the real president, in order to hide the truth from the public. |
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| After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director. |
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| Before setting off to Dancewear in Glasgow to buy my first set of pumps, however, I was dragooned by the man to take part in a hateful five-a-side. |
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| However, praying, sermonising or wearing religious garb in the streets surely compromises the requirement that the public weal not be dragooned into supporting religion. There is the environment to consider, as well. |
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| But, in a poor district, only five engineers can be found of whom four have in fact been dragooned from other government service. Elsewhere, a surfeit of pointless earth embankments is the least of the trouble. |
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| But once there it will need to be dragooned ruthlessly through lobbyists and obstructionists if it is ever to become law. Army reform will happen only if Mr Yeltsin hacks away at it doggedly and directly. |
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| In parts of northern Colombia, voters and candidates were dragooned into doing the paramilitaries' bidding. Under the current rules, those under investigation are replaced by another member of their party. |
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| Only a few officials were dragooned into making their statements publicly. |
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| In September 2007, five workers at Nasa Garments dragooned into representing their fellow striking workers in discussions to end a dispute were arrested and imprisoned. |
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