conscription
IPA: kʌnskrˈɪpʃʌn
noun
- Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
- An enrolling or registering.
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Examples of "conscription" in Sentences
- Involuntary conscription is the answer to their daily pain.
- Another was sentenced to ten years in prison for delivering speeches in which he called conscription unconstitutional.
- Moyers knows conscription is the quickest way to initiate the fundamental changes to foreign policy needed to end the war.
- Perhaps an under-motivated, under-trained army of the sort that would result from conscription is exactly what this country needs.
- A practical and political form of opposition to conscription is the proposal, first put forward, so far as I know, by an American woman,
- Also, the ancient idea of forcing to people to join your army, i.e. conscription, is an advanced technology that allows you to form units of guys with repeating rifles.
- The operational principle in conscription, as the vile Bernard Baruch, head of the Wilson Junta’s War Industries Board, pointed out in August 1918, is that every man’s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man’s property ….
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