Sentence examples for deferment system from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, the deferment system has become a central issue in the election campaign.

The resulting legislation, the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, rationalized the deferment system, but it did little to stifle public resistance to the draft.

Playing to their respective supporters, both sides are keen to rekindle the huge controversy that followed a ruling by the Supreme Court last December that the entire draft-deferment system for yeshiva students, based on regulations issued periodically by the minister of defence, is illegal.

Abundant manpower in turn made possible a generous system of student deferments.

The women who do raise their voices are often ground up for years in Italy's infamously Byzantine legal system and countless deferments, while their partners often threaten to sue them for defamation, stalk them or continue to abuse them.

"Erudio has experienced some technical issues with their systems in getting up to date deferment status information, and as a result a small number of customers may have experienced some difficulties.

Dr. Heffner favored ending the deferments, telling a meeting of freshmen in 1967 that the system made students a "privileged class".

The reason for this was that the World War II conscription system could be considered as a universal conscription; deferments were only approved for hardship cases or for those men who worked in the war industry or agriculture.

The Director of Selective Service System, General Lewis B. Hershey, ordered local draft boards nationwide to curtail the granting of student deferment in order to induct more men to the military.

Curtis W. Tarr, who as director of the Selective Service System in the later years of the Vietnam War sought to make the lottery system for the military draft fairer by reducing the number of student and medical deferments granted to young men, died on June 21 at his home in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Furious that ARHA waited to ask for a deferment of its special-use permit until 4 30 p.m. Friday, council members questioned whether ARHA was trying to game the system by getting a rezoning without saying exactly what it would build on the site — or whether it would sell the property to a private developer.