Sentence examples for deferment from from inspiring English sources

Dean got a medical deferment from Vietnam and spent his time skiing in Aspen.

After Yale, having received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft because of a long-standing back condition, Mr. Dean meandered and resisted Wall Street's pull.

Mr. Dean grew up on Park Avenue in an old aristocratic family, and after getting his medical deferment from the draft, he moved to Aspen to ski.

Since leaving New Haven, he'd spent several idle months in Aspen, Colorado — abetted by a medical deferment from the draft (for a back condition that didn't interfere with his ability to ski or work part time pouring concrete).

Mr. Cheney received a student deferment from the draft in 1963, when he was attending Casper College in Wyoming, and another when he went to graduate school in 1965.

Mr. King graduated magna cum laude from all-black Fisk University in Nashville in 1956 and received a deferment from military service that allowed him to study for a master's degree at the London School of Economics.

Trump received several student deferments from Vietnam while in college.

Instead, the rich kid got multiple student deferments from the draft and a medical deferment".

Mr. Cheney received deferments from the draft because he was a student and an expectant father.

One issue roiling higher education was whether college students should receive deferments from being drafted into the military.

Civilian and military leaders are always clueless (Trump received five deferments from Vietnam), except when they love him.