Sentence examples for ended the draft from inspiring English sources

Last year it ended the draft in favour of an all-volunteer army like America's.

Germany is making the change years after its major allies have taken the same step, including the United States, which ended the draft in 1973.

In 1973, the Nixon administration ended the draft, which also marked the end of a citizen-soldier tradition that had served the nation for two centuries.

Although Nixon initially escalated America's involvement in the Vietnam War, he subsequently ended US involvement in 1973 and ended the draft.

Thus ended the draft-dodging days of Achilles.

Richard Nixon ran for election, promising to end the draft.

Coincidentally, the anniversary of the 1941 invasion came just days before the Bundeswehr, the current army, formally ends the draft that has sustained its ranks for decades.

When the commission's report was published, in 1970, it recommended an all-volunteer military, giving Nixon the political cover he needed to eventually end the draft.

Ending the draft was part of Nixon's goal that he called "a full generation of peace," a response to the antiwar movement and its focus on the draft.

The Democrats got clobbered in the 1956 election, when their presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, who represented the liberal wing of the party, proposed ending the draft and unilaterally halting tests on the hydrogen bomb.

(This from "The Role of Economists in Ending the Draft", by David R. Henderson, a paper that any admirer of Friedman should read).I have to admit to a sneaking for-the-moment sympathy with Mr Rangel.