| A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles. |
| When we were dragooned by the southern hemisphere into the professional era, nobody thought too much about the longer-term consequences. |
| So Saturday last weekend I was dragooned into being a judge at a local school's speech contest. |
| If I were dragooned tomorrow into teaching Western civ, I would raise my hand for the second semester, from Torquemada to Hitler. |
| 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. |
| The politically innocent Dave is dragooned into impersonating the real president, in order to hide the truth from the public. |
