With few people accepting voluntary redundancy, more and more middle managers are being hounded into quitting most often, says Kiyotsugu Shitara, general secretary of the Tokyo Managers Unionn, under the careful direction of a company's personnel department.
Why are we being hounded into action on a resolution that turns over to President Bush the Congress's Constitutional power to declare war?
People in my business are hounded into bringing the camera everywhere we go and - what's worse - using it!
Jewish cultural activity is diverse, flourishing, and public (unless of course it dares to mention Israel, in which case venues will be hounded into cancelling the event, and protesters will scream "political" abuse at those daring to attend).
With the founding of The Sun on Sunday, Mr. Murdoch appears to have declared that his tabloid will not be hounded into oblivion by the opprobrium that has beset The Sun and The News of the World, the weekend tabloid he shuttered when the phone hacking scandal broke wide open.
As the Revolution progressed, he was hounded into exile by the radical leadership.
The traditional media are toothless; opposition politicians have been hounded into bankruptcy by the fierce application of defamation laws inherited from Britain; voters have face the threat that, if they elect opposition candidates, their constituencies will suffer in the allocation of public funds; constituency boundaries have been manipulated by the government.
In other cases young women have been hounded into suicide by peers who took up the project of humiliation and ostracism after the initial crime.
A young woman coined the hashtag #YesAllWomen, was hounded into silence and invisibility for a while, but what she started was unstoppable.
In recent years, the grand old man of Indian painting, Maqbool Fida Husain, was hounded into exile in Dubai and London, where he died, because he painted the Hindu goddess Saraswati in the nude (even though the most cursory examination of ancient Hindu sculptures of Saraswati shows that while she is often adorned with jewels and ornaments, she is equally often undressed).
