Sentence examples for conscripted from inspiring English sources

The word "conscripted" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to indicate that someone has been forced to join the military or do some form of compulsory labor. For example, “He was conscripted into the army at the age of seventeen.”

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conscripted

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The issue revolves around Indonesian actions in late 1981 and early 1982, when Indonesia forced around 145,000 conscripted East Timorese civilians to form a human chain to march across huge areas of land with the military behind it to find hiding guerrilla forces.

The Indonesian military then made a concerted attempt to smear the leader of the Catholic church in East Timor, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes, who had expressed serious concerns of a famine because the conscripted subsistence farmers were unable to plant their crops in time for the next harvest.

When that became ineffective, distributed DoS (DDoS) onslaughts conscripted thousands of virus-infected computers, known as zombies, to bombard the target system with bogus requests from many locations at once.

Israel's army does not just train soldiers, he says; it nurtures entrepreneurs.Teenagers conscripted into high-tech units gain experience "akin to a bachelor's degree in computer science", says Ruvi Kitov, co-founder and chief executive of Tufin Technologies, an Israeli software firm.

THE last man to be conscripted into America's armed forces was called up on Valentine's Day 30 years ago.

The history of forced labour is more nuanced than Korea's objections suggest, says William Wetherall, an American sociologist: many Japanese were also conscripted.

From the sovereign's point of view, such information was crucial: the decision to go to war could be taken only once it was known how many men could be conscripted and how much money levied.

It claims that under Mr Woewiyu's tenure as defense minister the NPFL tortured adversaries, executed civilians, killed west African peacekeepers, raped and forced girls and women into sexual slavery, conscripted child soldiers and murdered humanitarian aid workers.

The Israeli army not only works hard to keep the country at the cutting edge of technology, it also trains young Israelis (who are conscripted at 18) in the virtues of teamwork and improvisation.

Inspired by a few children who have been found by their families, his mother continues her desperate search.In February 2009 the depleted Tamil Tigers pulled a sleeping Thanuraj, then 16, out of a roadside bunker and conscripted him.

Only 13% of those in the eligible age group (18 to 27) are actually conscripted, mostly those without the wits or connections to find an exemption (such as a certificate of ill-health), and of those caught in the net, 38% have been unable to get either jobs or further education, nearly one-third are drunks or drug addicts, and 13% have criminal records.

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