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• The prime minister pledged again that his government would not implement conscription for overseas service.
• Not until November 1944 were conscripts sent to fight overseas. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
• His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
• The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
• The four defendants were charged for tattooing their bodies to evade conscription immediately after they were judged physically competent to serve in the military.
• Newly designated sergeants and corporals were conscripted to the task of squad supervision and many exasperating occasions arose when a recruit got the wrong "foots" in place and was commanded to "change the foots. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
• Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
• After the war, he opposed peacetime conscription, denounced British neocolonialism, praised the United Nations, and criticized congressional isolationists.
• Howard plays a convict conscripted with others to help battle a flood along the banks of the Mississippi in 1927.
• Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.