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conscription

[ US /kənsˈkɹɪpʃən/ ]
[ UK /kɒnskɹˈɪpʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. compulsory military service

How To Use conscription In A Sentence

  • The prime minister pledged again that his government would not implement conscription for overseas service.
  • 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 four defendants were charged for tattooing their bodies to evade conscription immediately after they were judged physically competent to serve in the military.
  • 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.
  • The Armed Forces could do away with conscription and go over to a volunteer system.
  • Perhaps an under-motivated, under-trained army of the sort that would result from conscription is exactly what this country needs. Matthew Yglesias » Serve the Servants
  • He injured himself to avoid conscription.
  • But when forced conscription into the military becomes inevasible, I expect young people, at least those able to comprehend the significance of their place in history, to take a stand against the tyranny of war forces of evil cryptically embedded within the polity of a nation having gone wrong. Archive 2006-06-01
  • Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants.
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