Sentence examples for conscripted as from inspiring English sources

With the outbreak of the Second World War Sheridan was conscripted as an ambulance driver.

Conscripted as part of journalism, images were expected to arrest attention, startle, surprise.

Only at the Santa Fe Opera is Mother Nature conscripted as a scenic designer.

She starts as a scabby, dirty-minded teenager in wartime Danzig, who gets conscripted as a tram conductor.

INSECTS have been conscripted as weapons of war, tools of terrorism and instruments of torture for thousands of years.

A little while back, I had a dream in which I found myself conscripted as an international spy.

That included a veto in high politics (national security and sensitive foreign policy issues); an independence of the military-commercial empire with its land-confiscation rights, preferential customs and exchange rates, no taxation and an army of almost free labourers (conscripted soldiers), as well as an immunity from prosecution.

The government conscripted him as a noncombatant but furloughed him to fulfill his duties as a deputy in the Reichstag and the Prussian Assembly.

In the early 2000s, as militias battled for control of eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, his forces raped women and conscripted them as sex slaves.

Her story is one of continual abuse at the hands of men, from the pastor in the German orphanage where she was brought up, who would pinch her vulva to "exorcise the devils" in her, to the men of the various households for which the orphanage conscripted her as an indentured servant, who were often at least willing to pay for her sexual favors.

That "we" she conscripted me into was as loathsome a designation as the "they" that has so often been the lens through which black people are viewed.