Sentence examples for and the enlistment of from inspiring English sources

Lincoln did lag behind the abolitionists and the radical wing of his own party in supporting Emancipation and the enlistment of black soldiers.

But the statement also said that the campaign was marred by apparent vote buying and the enlistment of state employees to campaign for the governing party.

Groups that have long supported a crackdown on illegal immigrants, and the enlistment of state and municipal police forces in the effort, have now renewed their campaign by framing it in terms of fighting terrorism.

Somali piracy has fallen to a three-year low because of co-ordinated action by international navies and the enlistment of armed security guards by shipping companies, according to a maritime watchdog.

He would instruct soldiers that emancipation and the enlistment of black soldiers was now the army line: those that participated in the program would be promoted and those who resisted would be disciplined.

Though he had Union sympathies, he was considered a moderate, opposing both fugitive slave laws and the enlistment of black soldiers.

In early 1943, in response to Japanese propaganda about the camps, shifting wartime realities and needs, and other factors both practical and (perhaps) philosophical, the administration reversed policy and authorized the enlistment of Japanese Americans into the Armed Forces.

Music writers criticized its mainstream, R&B and pop-leaning sound, as well as the enlistment of a top production unit and popular guest artists.

The process would start with the enlistment of lawyers and focus groups to vet a new name.

The final Emancipation Proclamation did indeed provide for the enlistment of blacks, and those soldiers played an important role in the outcome of the war.

She found the spark for her story in the military policy of stop-loss, which involuntarily extends the enlistment of soldiers, and wrote an outline about a fictional decorated soldier who goes AWOL rather than return to Iraq.