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The writ of habeas corpus was used in relation to persons press-ganged into the navy, or in disputes over apprenticeship terms.
Many of the men had been press-ganged into taking part in the machine-breaking episodes.
Inevitably, the casualty rate among those press-ganged civilian so-called volunteers is fearfully high.
We have to watch what happens in another place regarding the citizen and his duties as a taxpayer, or as an unpaid, press-ganged tax collector.
I have strong reservations about the use of "press-ganged " community service.
What they are doing is to treat these men in this way merely because the men have been press-ganged.
They mentioned one elderly man who was press-ganged while on his way to hospital for treatment.
They cannot be press-ganged into the new structures.
They were people many of whom were press-ganged into fighting.
She had been press-ganged by a high-pressure salesman into committing herself to a hire-purchase agreement which she could not afford.
Three members came to me and said that they had been press-ganged to go onto it.
We have a situation where a number of independent individuals who are self-employed, have been press-ganged, or are being press-ganged for the most part, into employment.
They have done it willingly—they have not been press-ganged into it—and they have had increased support as the weeks have gone by and new disaster has come upon new disaster.
We are not press-ganged into service.
They cannot be press-ganged into joining.
