Sentence examples for ending the draft from inspiring English sources
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.
(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.
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.
The announcement by the governing Christian Democratic Union, and its sister party, the Christian Social Union, was a victory for Germany's popular defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who last month proposed effectively ending the draft as part of the most far-reaching restructuring of the military since the cold war.
Among the proposals he wrote about most frequently were: severing the link to gold and letting the dollar float, fighting inflation by reducing the growth of the money supply, ending the draft,..
The very day the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973, Richard Nixon also signed a decree ending the draft.
Last year it ended the draft in favour of an all-volunteer army like America's.
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.
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.
