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  • Conscripts make good cannon fodder, but for officers we need volunteers.†   (source)
  • This was not the Belgian Army, official conscripted protectors of white people, but a group of young men who held secret meetings in the woods behind our house.†   (source)
  • The Nationalists conscripted First Brother five years ago.†   (source)
  • Sixteen years ago, not too far away from here, I guess those Russian conscripts sensed something very similar before someone slashed their throats.†   (source)
  • It was several days before I perceived that most of these "girls" were young men in hiding from the forced-labor conscription, which had grown more ruthless than ever.†   (source)
  • They pester the Government with petitions for her release, and will attempt in the name of charity to waylay and conscript you.†   (source)
  • Any one of them was rated a match for any ten ordinary Landsraad military conscripts.†   (source)
  • In a book Farmer had shown me, there was a photograph of a conscripted and presumably recalcitrant roadworker who had been disciplined by the Marine-supervised Haitian gendarmes.†   (source)
  • If the trapper was right about Galbatorix, then it could mean ugly war crouched in the future, accompanied by the hardships of increased taxes and forced conscription.†   (source)
  • The same was true of his conscripted crewmen.†   (source)
  • Over thirty years, the IQ of Dutch conscripts rose twenty-one points and those of Spanish schoolchildren by ten points.†   (source)
  • 5 million active troops and a civilian population that could be conscripted into a suicide defense force.†   (source)
  • People whined about taxes and conscription, as they always have; but there was an emptiness beneath the apathetic passion play of politics.†   (source)
  • The conscripted Ethiopian soldiers in their jeeps and tanks, weighted down with helmets, combat boots, jackets, and weaponry, were confined to the main roads.†   (source)
  • They threw me out before my second conscription for overweight.†   (source)
  • With war on the horizon, Rowan would face her greatest challenge; she needed stalwart volunteers, not halfhearted conscripts.†   (source)
  • With those words he'd conscripted himself to banishment.†   (source)
  • Now that the comfort stations were run under military ordinances and the women not professionals but rather those who had unwittingly enlisted or been conscripted into the wartime women's volunteer corps, to contribute and sacrifice as all did, the expectation was that the various diseases would be kept more or less in check.†   (source)
  • France and Germany have conscription, and Asquith will fall if he should fail to institute it in England.†   (source)
  • It overrepresents those who enlisted during the first year of the war, before conscription went into effect, and underrepresents conscripts, substitutes, and those who volunteered only to avoid being drafted.†   (source)
  • Well, sir, we conscripted his horse.†   (source)
  • No conscript armies …. no interference however slight with freedom of press, or speech, or travel, or assembly, or of religion, or of instruction, or communication, or occupation…. no involuntary taxation.†   (source)
  • He had joined the Iraqi army, hardly surprising in a land of mass conscription, and had fought in the long war against Iranians, though he referred to them always as Persians and rafida.†   (source)
  • I had several times seen her conscript Albert ( and on rare occasions even George) to do duty as a babysitter while she went down to the bay for a drink or, as I mistakenly thought, simply went for a walk to stretch her legs.†   (source)
  • We had lost males before, cousins and uncles who were conscripted into armies or bonded as apprentices, who are almost as lowly as slave girls.†   (source)
  • It had been started by a refugee from the Portuguese territory to the south (a man avoiding conscription), and it was beautifully sited, on a cliff overlooking the river.†   (source)
  • He could remember sums of money demanded and paid, the dates of the conscription of other agents into the network.†   (source)
  • Tiverzin's brother had fought as a conscript in the war and had been wounded at Wafangkou.†   (source)
  • To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science!†   (source)
  • It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.   (source)
  • King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.   (source)
  • When there weren't enough volunteers, they resorted to conscription.
  • Nothing like the ratty red fatigues my brothers and any other Reds get when they're conscripted.†   (source)
  • Now I have nothing but a conscripted friend and a sister's broken bones.†   (source)
  • Is the glorious People's Army now conscripting egrets for its assault troops?†   (source)
  • He was conscripted to sweep chimneys and clean boilers.†   (source)
  • The surgeon attached to our unit has been killed and we are conscripting you as a medical worker.†   (source)
  • They've conscripted him for the Red Army.†   (source)
  • They pass little gray creperies with their windows smashed and shuttered boulangeries and empty bistros and hillsides full of conscripted Russians pouring cement and heavy-boned prostitutes carrying water from wells and they find no broadcasts of the sort the colonel's aides described.†   (source)
  • Based on their experiences in the Great War, people assumed women and children would be safe, but able-bodied men would be conscripted into the German army as forced laborers.†   (source)
  • Kilorn is going to be conscripted.†   (source)
  • He might have been Cinderella's fairy godmother, and they might have been attending a ball, for they rode in a decadent, gilded coach that had been transformed from a cypress while four squirrels had been conscripted into serving as their team of sleek black horses.†   (source)
  • "Comrade, Loginov's mission is to blend in with the conscripted crewmen, to listen in on conversations, to identify likely traitors, spies, and saboteurs.†   (source)
  • They handle supplies for the army, which has mobilized to an alarming degree recently, conscripting soldiers among the peasants and commandeering horses, asses, and oxen.†   (source)
  • They were conscripted.†   (source)
  • I thought how much dirt I would have eaten, or—you name it—the summer I was conscripted if I had been sure of $110 a month.†   (source)
  • They'd conscripted me for labor.†   (source)
  • Reminding him of Vasia, the boy with the handsome, unspoiled face, who had been unlawfully conscripted and who had shared their car, she described her stay with his mother in their village, Veretenniki.†   (source)
  • There will be more conscriptions, more laws, more labor camps.†   (source)
  • What I would give now for the simple doom of conscription.†   (source)
  • No one has escaped conscription and lived.†   (source)
  • "I'm doomed for conscription same as you, but they're not going to get me either.†   (source)
  • You have no occupation and are scheduled for conscription on your next birthday.†   (source)
  • Now I bet he sleeps through half the day, enjoying what little comforts he can before conscription.†   (source)
  • He got me this job; he saved me from conscription.†   (source)
  • I still have some time before conscription.†   (source)
  • In an industrial state or a conscript army, if you get control of the paperwork you can do anything.†   (source)
  • Their seamen are nearly all conscripts, remember.†   (source)
  • If Italy enters the war, we, too, will have mass conscription.†   (source)
  • Conscript armies have been tried in the past.†   (source)
  • Families who had hidden their boys during the last conscription volunteered them now.†   (source)
  • As a result, conscription went ahead and the Red Army reception centers were working overtime.†   (source)
  • … As for our labor conscripts and the women, good for them.†   (source)
  • The workers were divided into gangs, with the labor conscripts and the civilians kept apart.†   (source)
  • There were several labor conscripts in car fourteen.†   (source)
  • Those men are conscripts, called up for forced labor from Petrograd.†   (source)
  • General conscription!†   (source)
  • To get the job done, they'd revived an institution known as the corvée, a system of conscript labor that dated back to slavery days.†   (source)
  • The old Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is there with Thufir Hawat beside him and seven ships jammed with every conscript he could muster.†   (source)
  • I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.†   (source)
  • …on an assumption that spending on the Armed Forces must go on increasing if Mr. Hitler did not pipe down; there was even a chance that the bar could become part of the standard-issue ration pack; in that case, if there were to be a general conscription, a further five 46 1 factories would be needed; there were some on the board who were convinced there should and would be an accommodation with Germany and that Army Amo was a dead duck; one member was even accusing Marshall of being a…†   (source)
  • "I've sent a conscript release for your brothers and your friend, and an officer to your house, to tell your parents where you are," Cal continues, thinking this might calm me.†   (source)
  • They can't even conscript."†   (source)
  • Can't even conscript.†   (source)
  • The stockings they lose would probably be enough to save me, Kilorn, and half the Stilts from conscription.†   (source)
  • Conscription isn't a joke, not to us.†   (source)
  • And"—at this, my voice falters for the first time—"conscription age has been lowered, to the age of fifteen.†   (source)
  • Then the anger is in me too, cursing Farley, Kilorn, conscription, every little thing I can think of.†   (source)
  • How I wish I could jump into the photo, into the girl whose only problems were conscription and a hungry belly.†   (source)
  • No way for you to avoid conscription.†   (source)
  • Cal who saved me from conscription.†   (source)
  • "You bargained for me too, to save me from conscription," Kilorn says softly, finally understanding the price I've paid.†   (source)
  • He told me once that he didn't fear conscription as much as everyone else because the dozen bloodthirsty girls he was leaving behind were far more dangerous.†   (source)
  • Anyone who provides information leading to capture of Scarlet Guard operatives or the prevention of Scarlet Guard actions will be awarded conscription waivers, releasing up to five members of the same family from military service.†   (source)
  • Conscription.†   (source)
  • Kilorn's conscription.†   (source)
  • They were going to conscript her brother, and as her father had lost his influence and standing and had no money left to bribe them, he could do nothing about it; but he pleaded with them in his study and soon thereafter they left.†   (source)
  • Many of the conscripts, substitutes, and bounty men who made up an increasing proportion of both armies from 1863 on were motivated marginally if at all by ideology or patriotism.†   (source)
  • It overrepresents those who enlisted during the first year of the war, before conscription went into effect, and underrepresents conscripts, substitutes, and those who volunteered only to avoid being drafted.†   (source)
  • The fact that they were aboard a putatively hostile vessel and had found friendly Russian-speaking men had been overpowering for many of the young conscripts.†   (source)
  • Among yeoman farmers, for example, 56 percent of those who enlisted in the first year of the war asserted patriotic sentiments, compared with only 14 percent of those who came into the army after conscription was enacted.†   (source)
  • Thirty more men arrived in the Bell Tower, army conscripts who had been in the lower trenches taking the brunt of the fighting since the beginning.†   (source)
  • After months of sleepless nights and exhausting days in the snowbound village of wounded conscripts, she cared no longer for anyone to be sent to her, as if on a breeze, in a lovely time of year.†   (source)
  • I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.†   (source)
  • It's a whole lot safer to have a blank file on your flank than to have an alleged soldier who is nursing the "conscript" syndrome.†   (source)
  • You can't buy an M. I., you can't conscript him, you can't coerce him — you can't even keep him if he wants to leave.†   (source)
  • The baron and his family —all of his family-were knocking their heads on the floor in front of their ancestors and thanking the gods out loud for protecting them from conscription.†   (source)
  • That's conscription even if you call it "selective service" and pretty it up with USOs and "veterans' benefits"—it's tossing a minority to the wolves while the rest go on with that single-minded pursuit of the three-car garage, the swimming pool, and the safe & secure retirement benefits.†   (source)
  • But there's a whole corps of labor conscripts-including the other passengers, there are about seven hundred in all.†   (source)
  • The conscripts, who had all been strangers when they were impressed, were gradually getting to know each other.†   (source)
  • Sailors were in front, civilian passengers in the middle, and the labor conscripts in eight cars at the back.†   (source)
  • There were too many conscripts for the cars allotted to them, and the overflow had been put among the civilian passengers, including those of the fourteenth car.†   (source)
  • The room was full of conscripts; after a while soldiers came in, surrounded the men, and took them to the Semenov barracks for the night, and escorted them to the Vologda train in the morning.†   (source)
  • Finally he did remember her, and, together with the picture of the overcrowded freight car, the labor conscripts and their guards, and the woman with a braid over her shoulder, there flashed into his mind an image of his family.†   (source)
  • He had run away from Austria with his bride to avoid being conscripted into the army.†   (source)
  • "It was your son's turn to be conscripted, but no fear!†   (source)
  • After dinner, when the footman handed coffee and from habit began with the princess, the prince suddenly grew furious, threw his stick at Philip, and instantly gave instructions to have him conscripted for the army.†   (source)
  • When a decision had to be taken regarding a domestic serf, especially if one had to be punished, he always felt undecided and consulted everybody in the house; but when it was possible to have a domestic serf conscripted instead of a land worker he did so without the least hesitation.†   (source)
  • For example, there was the conscription of consumption.†   (source)
  • "Well," Tarrou said, "I've heard that the authorities are thinking of a sort of conscription of the population, and all men in good health will be required to help in fighting the plague."†   (source)
  • He was an old-time Austro-Hungarian conscript, and there was something soldierly about him: a neck that had strained with pushing artillery wheels, a campaigner's red in the face, a powerful bite in his jaw and gold-crowned teeth, green cockeyes and soft short hair, altogether Napoleonic.†   (source)
  • …of volunteers who trained together at the outbreak of war; one way and another they were nearly all gone some had been invalided out, some promoted to other battalions, some posted to staff jobs, some had volunteered for special service, one had got himself killed on the field firing range, one had been court-martialed—and their places were taken by conscripts; the wireless played incessantly in the ante-room nowadays, and much beer was drunk before dinner; it was not as it had been.†   (source)
  • We are making a huge conscript army without the time to implant the discipline that a conscript army must have, to behave properly under fire.†   (source)
  • Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?†   (source)
  • We call it a people's army but it will not have the assets of a true people's army and it will not have the iron discipline that a conscript army needs.†   (source)
  • He worked on Five Properties craftily, and I would see them confabbing in the shed, Kreindl with his rolled legs and his conscript's history pasted on his eager, humiliated back, his beef-eater's face inflated to the height of his forehead with the fine points of the young lady of that day: of good family, nourished from her mother's hand with the purest and whitest food, brought up without rudeness or collision, producing breasts on time, no evil thoughts as yet, giving nothing but…†   (source)
  • He came after the Great Fire, said to be caused by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, in flight from the conscription of the Hapsburg tyrant, and in his life as a builder proved that great places do not have to be founded on the bones of slaves, like the pyramids of Pharaohs or the capital of Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva, where thousands were trampled in the Russian marshes.†   (source)
  • It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.†   (source)
  • ]] In America the use of conscription is unknown, and men are induced to enlist by bounties.†   (source)
  • "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair.†   (source)
  • But to judge what is best—conscription or the militia—we can leave to the supreme authority….†   (source)
  • And when I have paid for the policeman who protects me and, if I live in a country where conscription is in force, served in the army which guards my house and land from the invader, I am quits with society: for the rest I counter its might with my wiliness.†   (source)
  • As regards the enemy's naval conscripts, some of whom may even share our own abhorrence of the regicidal French Directory, it is the same on our side.†   (source)
  • You are included in the conscription, Fernand, and are only at liberty on sufferance, liable at any moment to be called upon to take up arms.†   (source)
  • But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his— "sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription.†   (source)
  • His father, Monsieur Charles Denis Bartolome Bovary, retired assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage of his fine figure to get hold of a dowry of sixty thousand francs that offered in the person of a hosier's daughter who had fallen in love with his good looks.†   (source)
  • There you have it, conscript.†   (source)
  • What is termed the conscription in France is assuredly the heaviest tax upon the population of that country; yet how could a great continental war be carried on without it?†   (source)
  • During this time the empire made its last conscription, and every man in France capable of bearing arms rushed to obey the summons of the emperor.†   (source)
  • At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was relieved, and replaced by a conscript.†   (source)
  • The Americans have not adopted the British impressment of seamen, and they have nothing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is supplied by voluntary service.†   (source)
  • I have heard American statesmen confess that the Union will have great difficulty in maintaining its rank on the seas without adopting the system of impressment or of maritime conscription; but the difficulty is to induce the people, which exercises the supreme authority, to submit to impressment or any compulsory system.†   (source)
  • Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near Thenardier's cage.†   (source)
  • Efforts Of Which A Democracy Is Capable The Union has only had one struggle hitherto for its existence—Enthusiasm at the commencement of the war—Indifference towards its close—Difficulty of establishing military conscription or impressment of seamen in America—Why a democratic people is less capable of sustained effort than another.†   (source)
  • That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket.†   (source)
  • The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words the event seemed to hang, were as little voluntary as the actions of any soldier who was drawn into the campaign by lot or by conscription.†   (source)
  • Evidently accustomed to managing debates and to maintaining an argument, he began in low but distinct tones: "I imagine, sir," said he, mumbling with his toothless mouth, "that we have been summoned here not to discuss whether it's best for the empire at the present moment to adopt conscription or to call out the militia.†   (source)
  • So is /kindergarten/: I read lately of a /kindergarten/ for the elementary instruction of conscripts.†   (source)
  • —Are the conscript fathers pursuing their peaceful deliberations? he said with rich acrid utterance to the assistant town clerk.†   (source)
  • The word /slacker/, recently come into good usage in the United States as a designation for an unsuccessful shirker of conscription, is a substantive derived from the English verb /to slack/, which was born as university slang and remains so to this day.†   (source)
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