Sentence examples for avoid being conscripted from inspiring English sources
He fled China to avoid being conscripted, moving to Singapore in 1946 at 29.
Ostensibly I was leaving for "political" reasons, to avoid being conscripted into the apartheid army.
He left to avoid being conscripted into Islamist insurgency group al-Shabaab.
In September 1943, after the Allies signed an armistice with Italy, he fled to Switzerland to avoid being conscripted to fight with the Germans and Italian Fascists.
He left behind Damascus, the school where he taught, his mother and other family to avoid being conscripted into the war in Syria.
Raised by his stepmother in Nantes, he was sent to America in 1803, in part to avoid being conscripted into Napoleon's army.
He feared it was because he had so far avoided being conscripted for compulsory military service.
The family lived first in Germany, then in Israel, before moving to America in 1958 (to avoid Mark being conscripted into the Isreali army).
To avoid them being conscripted, many parents sent their children to Nepal's major cities for safety, explains Gautum: "Factory owners took advantage of the situation and started employing young children".
Food prices were high and farmers made lots of money - often sacking workers and employing their own sons on the farm to avoid them being conscripted.
He also wrote that the villagers had paid a bribe of £100 in gold to the Pasha of Nablus to avoid their young men being conscripted into the Turkish army fighting in Crimea.
