Sentence examples similar to we were strong-armed from inspiring English sources

"She described to me feeling as though they were strong-armed into seating people that they didn't feel were ready".

The post was erected in late March by Buddhist residents of the village in Myanmar's lush Irrawaddy delta region who signed, or were strong-armed into signing, a document asserting that they wanted to live separately.

My family members took the king's shilling because they had little choice, whereas many others from similar economic backgrounds were strong-armed into enlisting by war propaganda or press-ganged into military service by their employers.

Instead of 7percentt of the offering's total --the industry standard -- the banks were strong-armed by the Wall Street-hating founders of Google into taking a measly fee of 2.8percentt of the $1.67 billion raised in the auction.

Image caption Michael Gove said the council's actions were "strong-armed and draconian" Sheffield Tree Action Groups (STAG) has said residents are determined to continue their campaign against felling.

The executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation, said he felt "we were being strong-armed".

Anderson said: "We are prepared to go with the best available, and we're not going to be strong-armed by officials who simply think they are irreplaceable and that the game can't go on without them.

Critics (and some fans) approached its reappearance with trepidation as if we were all about to be strong-armed into reckoning with our pretentious and over-serious past selves.

It's encrypted and we don't have a key").? Or will they be strong-armed into adding backdoors into mainstream services, thereby making them less secure against hackers, as well as accessible to spooks?

"I can't be strong-armed and blackmailed," he said.

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