Another was sentenced to ten years in prison for delivering speeches in which he called conscription unconstitutional. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Peace] Reference
Involuntary conscription is the answer to their daily pain. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Way Gone (copy)] Reference
Moyers knows conscription is the quickest way to initiate the fundamental changes to foreign policy needed to end the war. From Wordnik.com. [And, in the interest of point/counterpoint… « Dating Jesus] Reference
Perhaps an under-motivated, under-trained army of the sort that would result from conscription is exactly what this country needs. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Serve the Servants] Reference
A practical and political form of opposition to conscription is the proposal, first put forward, so far as I know, by an American woman. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Greene Balch - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This country still relies on conscription, which is getting to be exceptional in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
The re - sulting force lAight be called a conscription, Im - perial guards, or the like, but it was not a militia. From Wordnik.com. [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference
I think conscription is a grand idea. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Hegemony and Deficit] Reference
However, she denied this amounted to "conscription". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Only then did measures such as conscription and the galvanising of industry begin to put us on a war footing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-02] Reference
It is something like what people now call 'conscription' that Richard. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference
The epidemic word with us yesterday was unquestionably "conscription"; several months ago it was "preparedness.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Why is it only called conscription when doctors are allocated to rural areas but not to urban areas, "Zuma asked. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Perhaps my tune would be a little different if we had a military that relied on some kind of conscription for it's personel. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Many of the merchant seamen back then were kidnapped or as they called it "conscription" from bars, pubs, street corners etc. From Wordnik.com. [Infowars] Reference
"Under the circumstances, you will be exempt, Mr. Fort, from the conscription which is now under way. From Wordnik.com. [The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix] Reference
There was no conscription to send him to that hellish death. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
There, it is a forced conscription; here, they are volunteers for gayety!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Absent the extraordinarily unlikely return of conscription, this will not change. From Wordnik.com. [The True Costs Of The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars] Reference
Although our army and navy are hardly as strong as they should be, we want no conscription here. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Tributary Nature's token conscription all present and correct, yet unable to advance any further. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsaken] Reference
Serdyukov didn't scrap conscription altogether, but he reduced compulsory service from 18 months to 12. From Wordnik.com. [A New Model Army] Reference
Many elite Roman families resented military conscription of their sons and found the tax burdens excessive. From Wordnik.com. [Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Prop 8, Judge Walker and the Biblical View of Marriage Equality] Reference
But forced labor and conscription are still common in other contested areas, so is the use of child soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East] Reference
Perhaps Serdyukov's most important move has been to take on the military's insistence on universal conscription. From Wordnik.com. [A New Model Army] Reference
I was trying to get home to stay; was on the Virginia side at the time I was arrested by the conscription officers. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
His story has struck a chord among Israelis because, unlike the U.S. military, Israel's army is one of conscription. From Wordnik.com. [Anxiety, Anger Over Gaza Attacks Still Alive In Israel] Reference
"There was a conscription element to employment" that was very significant to the WWII "recovery," Rogoff points out. From Wordnik.com. [Was Keynes Right?] Reference
The Tyrolese were an independent people, who would not submit to conscription and taxation at the hands of the Bavarians. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
The U.K., for example, is debating whether to keep its nuclear submarines while the German defense ministry plans to abolish conscription. From Wordnik.com. [Solving the Nato Puzzle] Reference
Some legislators argue that even if conscription were instituted today, it would be of little use in solving immediate problems in the gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Americans Won't Face Another Draft] Reference
With several German parties strongly in favor of the draft, Guttenberg's proposal does not remove conscription from the German constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Germany Considers Major Restructuring of Military] Reference
It appears that many white men, women, and children have thus been sacrificed, in order to carry out the conscription act in all its terrors. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Yet conscription proved to be highly unpopular – both with most of those who had to do it and those who had to find something to do with them. From Wordnik.com. [A backwards salute to recruitment films] Reference
Taylor, after all, is accused of funding and authorizing atrocities ranging from the conscription of children to hacking off the limbs of civilians. From Wordnik.com. [Naomi Campbell's diamond-crusted blow to bravado at Charles Taylor war-crimes trial] Reference
It cannot be denied, that the masters, whether rebel or loyal, may be called and even forced by conscription into the army to suppress the rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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