under compulsion
Example Sentences
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His war book was in this sense a command performance, executed under compulsion by a reluctant but dutiful son.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020
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
Of Agatharchus of Athens we learn that he painted, under compulsion, the interior of the house of Alcibiades.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
