Sentence examples for called up for war from inspiring English sources

According to Alfonso's wager, the men must tell their girlfriends that they have been called up for war.

But in 1941 Noland was called up for war service as a glider pilot and cipher operator.

Most of the groundsmen had been called up for war service, so we were free to play in the playing fields in the summer evenings without being driven out.

Female domestic staff had been called up for war service in factories, and now realised there was an easier and better paid existence outside of the gates of the great country houses.

His career was aided by the outbreak of World War I; many of the younger and fitter barristers were called up for war service, whilst Birkett himself, who was thirty when he joined the bar, avoided conscription as he was declared medically unfit.

Called up for war service, he made such a diminutive tank commander that he was better off inventing and designing.

The specialist was a college student from Iowa whose National Guard unit had been called up for the war.

Processing a number similar to those called up for the war in 1991 would be a laborious process that, according to a Pentagon official, "would take more than a week or two" to complete.

Then the issue was employees' being called up for the Korean War, leaving vacancies that were soon filled.

When its members were called up for the Lebanon war, they didn't have straps for their guns, spare ammunition, flak jackets or more than one good radio.

"You run into the same financial difficulties whether you get called up for a popular war or something that doesn't get as much attention.