press-ganged

So Bob is press-ganged into a super-secret branch of the SAS and the fun begins.

November 2009 2009

Our parents always suspected that Ms. Munroe or Mr. Wilson thought we were "rat-like" and dressed like we'd been press-ganged into the Pussycat Dolls.

Natalie Munroe and Nir Rosen: What happens online... Alexandra Petri 2011

A frazzled secretary, press-ganged from a neighboring village, typed it out in time for the afternoon press conference, when, as cameras clicked, the three heads of state and their prime ministers added their signatures.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

To the last, it would seem, judging by The Devil's Double, which offers us a factually supercharged account of the toxic and violent relationship between Uday, Saddam's psychotic elder son, and his press-ganged doppelganger Latif Yahia.

The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal 2011

A frazzled secretary, press-ganged from a neighboring village, typed it out in time for the afternoon press conference, when, as cameras clicked, the three heads of state and their prime ministers added their signatures.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Since the first pages of the first volume, "Kydd" 2001, when the eponymous wig-shop owner was press-ganged into servitude onboard a warship, readers have been presented with the typical progression of multi-part Napoleonic-era nautical novels, followed as closely as the Stations of the Cross.

At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

A frazzled secretary, press-ganged from a neighboring village, typed it out in time for the afternoon press conference, when, as cameras clicked, the three heads of state and their prime ministers added their signatures.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The faked the fireworks, the singing, they wrapped empty buildings in fake coverings, put up hundreds of miles of 20 ft walls to hide the poverty and press-ganged tens of thousands of performers into boot-camps for six months of 12 hours a day 7 days a week rehersals.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Not Over When it’s Over 2010

A frazzled secretary, press-ganged from a neighboring village, typed it out in time for the afternoon press conference, when, as cameras clicked, the three heads of state and their prime ministers added their signatures.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Watching cricket in this state you feel a bit like an American, or a toddler, or someone's press-ganged girlfriend: wreathed in mute bafflement, surprised by applause, wrenching your neck round to shriek "eh?" or "what?" every time the ball is hurled skyward or a bat waggled in triumph.

Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011