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- verb Present participle of
dragoon .
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Examples
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There are many such people around, who object to the 'dragooning' of science for political ends by a powerful clique.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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IFP leaders of "dragooning" innocent people into sabotaging their mass action campaign.
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Word eventually reaches the local warlord, who three years earlier sanctioned the dragooning of their son and husband.
The Horror, at Home David Mermelstein 2011
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President Obama recently announced support for the deal after dragooning one more round of needless concessions from the Colombians.
Trumping Trumka 2011
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Charles Taylor's on trial for war crimes at the U.N. special court at The Hague, charged with murder, rape, dragooning child soldiers, and massacring civilians in a civil war largely financed by dirty looking stones, often known as blood diamonds.
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Charles Taylor's on trial for war crimes at the U.N. special court at The Hague, charged with murder, rape, dragooning child soldiers, and massacring civilians in a civil war largely financed by dirty looking stones, often known as blood diamonds.
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This is just as easy and at least as common as governments dragooning their populations into doing The Right Thing ™.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Primer on Libertarianism 2009
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Mackintosh turns his smallest cast into his biggest one by dragooning many in the audience into a conga line that snakes through the theater to the calypsoid carol "Push Ka Pi Shi Pie."
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You leave it vulnerable to regime change, and a dragooning of Iran back into the US sphere of influence, denying it to China and assuring its 500 tcf of natural gas to US corporations.
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You leave it vulnerable to regime change, and a dragooning of Iran back into the US sphere of influence, denying it to China and assuring its 500 tcf of natural gas to US corporations.
Archive 2006-08-01 JDsg 2006
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