| Granted, they're probably concentrating on coaxing surrenders from conscript units on the front, but this is a task that cannot be ignored. |
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| The first conscript armies were recruited in France to fight the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. |
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| In 1957, I was back in Jamaica serving Her Majesty as a conscript in her armed forces there. |
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| This was a conscript citizen army paid for by being given farms from land that had been returned to the king as a result of resumption. |
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| But in a conscript army assembled by a dictatorship, the line between civilian and soldier gets blurred, at least by my calculation. |
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| A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government. |
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| Nor is a conscript army without advantages both for the soldiers and the institution. |
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| At the start of the Spanish civil war they were the only combat-tested regulars in a short-service conscript army. |
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| Why the officer corps of the army or the conscript regular soldiers were all fired is inexplicable. |
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| It's a conscript army, and the families of the soldiers are suffering more each year. |
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| The Bundeswehr has been a conscript army within the Alliance since its very beginning. |
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| They were released in 1942, but Janka's son and husband were taken by the Hungarians soon after as conscript labor. |
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| In particular, weightings were established for foreign versus domestic forces and for conscript versus professional forces. |
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| If a conscript refuses to serve in the armed forces because of religious or moral reasons, an alternative service is possible. |
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| By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces. |
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| Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax. |
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| It would also conscript lawyers, banks, accountants and others into a national subculture of informants and snitches. |
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| Voluntary extension of basic military service is only possible if the conscript agrees to be deployed on Bundeswehr operations abroad. |
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| Somewhat less frequently, it was also said that the concept of a conscript army was the more intelligent and less cost-intensive type of army. |
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| The plebiscite would allow the government to conscript for overseas service. |
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| Military personnel, whether volunteer or conscript, can develop a conscientious objection. |
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| The course of training for a conscript in this unit is fundamentally different from that of other units. |
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| As a rule he is sent to service in the calendar year in which he reaches the age of 19 and then he becomes a conscript. |
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| The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai. |
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| It is no coincidence that the public debate accompanies the transformation of the French military from a conscript force into a professional modern army. |
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| A conscript army was considered the corollary of a democratic society. |
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| They can be made by a young conscript who chooses to tell her family about the horrors to which she contributed, rather than maintain the silent lie of false heroism. |
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| The popular conscript army mustered by revolutionary France would demonstrate its superiority over the state commission style, but its abilities were not immediately apparent. |
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| A draft law that would convert Russia's military forces from a conscript to a predominantly professional basis by 2007 was approved by Putin in March 2003, and passed its first reading in the Duma in May. |
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| Those who are in power even conscript the young who obey without realizing what is at stake in the political and economic situation beyond the obvious ethnic undercurrents. |
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| This is how the government keeps the road open – conscript soldiers and a series of flying columns, open-top trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and soldiers cowled behind scarves to protect them from the desert wind. |
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| Early in the war, the BEF was virtually destroyed and was replaced first by volunteers and then a conscript force. |
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| Although she had many young men still to draft, she could not conscript them and did not dare to resort to the impressment Frederick had done. |
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| Edward sought to conscript Scots, including the nobility of the defeated realm, into the armies being raised to fight in Flanders. |
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| It was 1951 and I was a conscript serving in the Royal Air Force. |
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| Enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies. |
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| Early information gathered by British intelligence agents about German ship movements led Canada to conscript all merchant ships two weeks before actually declaring war. |
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| The group continued to target innocent civilians, to conscript children, assassinate political leaders and engage in ethnic cleansing and other violations of human rights. |
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| More ominously, voices sympathetic to Hizbullah whisper that its militia, widely seen as far tougher than Lebanon's ill-equipped conscript army, is ready to take swift control of ports, borders and main cities. |
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| Conscription was replaced by voluntary enlistment, although the power to conscript citizens for military service is still listed in the Constitution as one of the powers of the President of the Republic. |
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| Russia, as well as many other nations, retains mainly a conscript army. |
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| The conscript soldiers of the milita have to store their military equipment at home, to be mobilized quite fast within a few days in case of emergency. |
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| During the Second World War, to ensure production levels were met, conscript labour redirected from the armed forces, the Bevin Boys, was used in the collieries. |
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| If you accept these proposals, Conscript Fathers, say so at once and simply, in accordance with your convictions. |
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