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.