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I thought of them being force-marched to work and then made to slave under horrid conditions - still plagued by the need to frequently stop and attend to the call of nature, knowing even then, that as they did so, they would not be able to complete the work required of them which would result in a further beating at the end of the day.
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Wolfsberg Railway Station, the men were force-marched to Stammlager XVIIIA
Doug Nix 2010
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Bourguiba modeled himself on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's founder who force-marched his country into the modern age through a painful process of secularization - "for the people, despite the people," as he once quipped.
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Towards the last part of the journey they were ordered out to the carriage and force-marched to Salonika, as a section of the tracks had been destroyed by bombing raids.
Doug Nix 2010
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If he and his buddies force-marched them up the steep mountainside path into the mine tomorrow and he came within shoving distance, the little sadist was going to find himself on a fast ride to the bottom of the deep, rocky ravine.
Deadly Promises Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010
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Men either pushed their wives and children deeper and deeper into the isolated bush or became part of the mass of bodies shackled at the neck, sold at the markets, and force-marched to the coast.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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Shackled, force-marched through the wild, learning what to eat by watching the monkeys, they prayed for special op helicopters to descend from the skies and deliver them from their daily torments.
Book review of 'Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure' by John Otis Marie Arana 2010
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Via No Child Left Behind and other draconian schemes, the underprivileged are force-marched through a nonstop schedule of high-stakes testing so they will better conform to such soulless corporate values as “proficiency” and “productivity.”
Tales Out of School 2008
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Shackled, force-marched through the wild, learning what to eat by watching the monkeys, they prayed for special op helicopters to descend from the skies and deliver them from their daily torments.
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Men either pushed their wives and children deeper and deeper into the isolated bush or became part of the mass of bodies shackled at the neck, sold at the markets, and force-marched to the coast.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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