Sentence examples for deferment to from inspiring English sources

It is not the case that the will can choose to defer regardless of what the intellect decides, or that the will can choose to defer even if the intellect has judged deferment to be less good than some other course of action.

After graduating in 1968, he received a deferment to attend Syracuse University College of Law.

I had a year's deferment to complete my art training and then joined the RAF for my national service.

While Stanford classmates like David Harris organized protests against the Vietnam War, Mitt got a deferment to go to Paris as a Mormon missionary.

When he was in college in the early 1960's, he used a student deferment to avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Because the draft provided deferment to college students, the burden of being sent to Vietnam fell heavily on the less well educated and less affluent.

My male peers -- for the most part -- flocked to a host of deferments to avoid service.

Mr. Bush's running mate, Dick Cheney, used deferments to avoid being drafted.

Many of those too poor or patriotic to arrange deferments to avoid service were shunned as killers on their return.

Government talk of abolishing student deferments to bring in more and better-quality conscripts subsided after big protests over social reforms in January.

Yet, eight months later he spoke out against a Selective Service proposal to deny deferments to students who protested against military recruiting.