Sentence examples for a deferment from from inspiring English sources

Mr. King graduated magna cum laude from all-black Fisk University in Nashville in 1956 and received a deferment from military service that allowed him to study for a master's degree at the London School of Economics.

Born in Korea in 1941, orphaned at eleven, and often a homeless beggar until finding refuge, at sixteen, in a Buddhist monastery, Sunim left his country in 1965, when, having failed to obtain a deferment from the Korean Army, he served for a year and then fled to Japan as a deserter.

As a defense industry worker, he had a deferment from military service, but Martin said he saw that France and Britain could not win the war in Europe on their own and that men with families were joining the service and being drafted.

As the Boston Globe reported in June of 2007, Mormon leadership secured handsome White House hopeful Willard Mitt Romney a deferment from the military draft as a "minister of religion" in the 1960's to conduct "missionary work" in France, which lasted two and a half years.

They earn a man a deferment for a year.

I.B.M. applied for a deferment for me twice but the application failed.

Since leaving New Haven, he'd spent several idle months in Aspen, Colorado — abetted by a medical deferment from the draft (for a back condition that didn't interfere with his ability to ski or work part time pouring concrete).

After Yale, having received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft because of a long-standing back condition, Mr. Dean meandered and resisted Wall Street's pull.

Dean got a medical deferment from Vietnam and spent his time skiing in Aspen.

Mr. Cheney received a student deferment from the draft in 1963, when he was attending Casper College in Wyoming, and another when he went to graduate school in 1965.

Some swallowed aluminum foil after being told it would give them a medical deferment from causing bad x-rays.