Sentence examples for dragoon from inspiring English sources
verb
To force someone into doing something; to coerce.
The government even wants to ban some raw-material exports, hoping to dragoon mining companies into building smelters and exporting higher-value goods.
Mr Spitzer is now trying to dragoon Wall Street firms into signing up to an early deal by threatening that, if they do not, he will reopen his investigations into potentially damaging e-mails and the rest.
In practice the main answer will be to dragoon Cyprus's pension funds and domestic banks into financing the €4.5 billion of government bonds due to be redeemed over the next three years.However the figures are massaged down, the nub of the problem will remain: a country with a broken banking model.
From the early wars of Frederick II the Great of Prussia in the 18th century, dragoon has referred to medium cavalry.
Astley was a horseman with a British dragoon regiment from about 1759 and at first was the sole performer in the Amphitheatre, specializing in riding with one foot on the saddle and one on the horse's head while brandishing a sword.
The light cavalry of the British army in the 18th and early 19th centuries was for the most part called light dragoon.
(An alternative account holds that the townsite was named for the granite rocks of the nearby Dragoon Mountains, which stand out against the landscape like tombstones).
The Chiricahua were perhaps the most nomadic and aggressive of the Apache west of the Rio Grande, raiding into northern Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico from their strongholds in the Dragoon Mountains.
In 1858 a meeting at Apache Pass in the Dragoon Mountains between the Americans and the Chiricahua Apache resulted in a peace that lasted until 1861, when Cochise went on the warpath.
"While there is positive news of the return of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Royal Marines staying in Arbroath, a previous pledge of thousands more troops to Scotland has become a plan for just hundreds.
Jonathan Findlay, the campaign's European project manager and a former captain in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the regiment into which the Greys amalgamated in 1971, has a special interest in seeing the Greys charge again: "I have a relative on my mother's side, James Wemyss, who was a Greys officer at Waterloo.
