Dragooning

There are many such people around, who object to the 'dragooning' of science for political ends by a powerful clique. ❋ Unknown (2009)

IFP leaders of "dragooning" innocent people into sabotaging their mass action campaign. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Word eventually reaches the local warlord, who three years earlier sanctioned the dragooning of their son and husband. ❋ David Mermelstein (2011)

President Obama recently announced support for the deal after dragooning one more round of needless concessions from the Colombians. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is just as easy and at least as common as governments dragooning their populations into doing The Right Thing ™. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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." ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ JDsg (2006)

Because the dragooning of the vote at any price was corrupt. and in consequence the government forced through a Bill against all tradition and at the price of the people's liberty, with the help of those 'honourable not members' who got this Bill through against their principles, selling our heritage for their mess of potage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus her eventual dragooning to Minnesota and the Sturm und Drang of therapy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is a phenomenon of the past twenty years or so and I write this as someone who has done a great deal of counselling that victims of traumata are instantly descended upon by counsellors intent upon dragooning them into the first stage of grief even before the disaster has fully registered, and social workers who presume to know their needs. ❋ Jessica (2007)

How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The USSR and the rest of the Eastern bloc subsequently became so enmeshed with debt and reliance on Western technology that the supposed “Soviet threat” was largely a fiction, but served a useful purpose in dragooning nations into the American orbit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He walked north into the surreal brightness of that day, comforting a police officer and dragooning reporters.... ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

That empty, and often empty-headed punditry, which Jon Stewart destroyed so skilfully, played a big role in dragooning the American people into a wasteful and destructive elective war that threatens to warp American society and very possibly to end the free Republic we have managed to maintain for over 200 years. ❋ Unknown (2005)

June went first to a back-street in Paddington, where Mrs. Smeech, her ‘lame duck,’ lived — an aged person, connected with the charring interest; but after half an hour spent in hearing her habitually lamentable recital, and dragooning her into temporary comfort, she went on to Stanhope Gate. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I could have been safe at home, pleasuring myself groggy with Elspeth and sponging off her skinflint father, facing nothing worse than the prospect of bear-leading her family in Society, and here I was imprisoned in a lonely castle with five dangerous lunatics bent on dragooning me into a hare-brained adventure that was certain to put my head in a noose. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)

President has acquired the services of German military officers who will find congenial employment in thus dragooning defenceless citizens. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)

verb, transitive: 1. Well it's about time to go Dragoon the troops. 2. I said I wanted to get posted and then I got Dragooned out of my [LDA] in [Gagetown]. phrasal verb: 1. We were just [Dragooning] around and didn't learn anything on exercise. ❋ Joe Dude (2011)

Teacher: Today we are going to learn about the Green Dragoons under Banastre [Tarleton], who during the [Revolutionary War], was known for his cold brutality yet [gentlemanly] composure. ❋ TheDaftestPunk (2012)

1. [Black Mage]: Bolt 3! Dragoon: Jump! 2. Zealot: [My life for Aiur]! Dragoon: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, *[phoom]!* 3. Dart (Dragoon): Flaaaaame.... SHOT! Rose: Die! More and more! ❋ Zackarotto (2003)

Commdander Bob: Send in the Dragoons to get those [Musketeers]! Dragoon Jeff: [Hiya]! I [KILL ALL] DRAGONS MUAHAHAAA!! ❋ Xier (2003)

Who knws how the term [dragoon] came about. Howerver The [cavalry] men it refers to usually wielded [Muskets]. ❋ Light Joker (2004)

do a [frappin] [google] [search] ❋ Santa_anna (2004)

Original quote from William [Robertson] (from a letter to his wife, collected in "The Collected Letters of William Robertson, [OUP], Oxford, 1954): "The local men of the village perform "Dragooning" every [morning before] taking water, rubbing their beards together at the chin, being careful not to touch the nose of the other which is regarded as sacred and must not be touched. A most unusual greeting..." ❋ Wully Robe (2007)

HAS [NOTHING TO DO] WITH [DRAGONS]!! only idiots think it has to do with [dragons]! ❋ Private (2003)

[Yeah bitch] Year! EAT my DragOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! *penis ejects from it's [teflon] [casing] and encircles the whore then spews thick gooey boiling jizz all over Miss Varella!* ❋ Yu-gi-oh-sucked-my-anus (2004)

"hey [dragoon] [ur] a [fag]" ❋ Chaosblade (2010)