press-ganging

Nationalism works by press-ganging divergent citizens into a single cultural vessel whose only goal and purpose is to generate unity by identifying alien, and to be despised, "others".

Letters: The holy grail of English nationalism 2011

Anyone who'd work voluntarily for the HSE and I don't recall reading they'd started press-ganging people is de facto an enemy of the human race.

It's health and safety gone mad 2009

Naturally, the money does not wish to have the likes of relative "nobodies " utilizing the net to remind people that no wars could be if they were not funded, that the whole terrorist thing, while an actuality, like the Deobandi in Britain still covers a plethora of real legislation for the removal of freedoms and the press-ganging of the populace into a new dystopia.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

Any who did stay within the area were forced to pay the penalty, the Taliban commandeering their vehicles and press-ganging the young men into fighting with them.

An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

Although the Lib Dems have little chance in Wales of gaining a seat on the EP, it's only politically realistic that they have women on the list, and whereas the Western Mail accuses the party of "press-ganging women into putting their names forward", I'd say that it is more of a case of "too little and nearly too late".

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

They'd been spit out into deep space to hijack Nanagadan ships during the first few years of contact, before the Loa began to work with humans instead of press-ganging them into service fighting against the Teotl between wormholes and planets.

Crystal Rain 2006

They accuse the marauding gangs of press-ganging their workers into supporting the looting.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

So the government went on a wild recruitment drive, press-ganging orphans, other children and vagabonds into the army.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

So the government went on a wild recruitment drive, press-ganging orphans, other children and vagabonds into the army.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

What is destabilising KwaZulu/Natal is the boycott politics of the IFP; the IFP press-ganging of school children to insult the King; the IFP trained hitsquads; the indecision of

IFP CONDONING OF CRIME 1996