Sentence examples for enlist if from inspiring English sources

I will simply say, 'Do what your heart tells you.' " In Oruzgan, where recruiting has sharply fallen, to 14 last year from 60 enlistments two years ago, plenty of young men have promised to enlist, if only they could do so without anyone in their village knowing about it, said Col. Karimullah Qurbani, director of the army recruiting center there.

His son, Robert, is a college freshman and has become involved in a campus debate on whether to enlist if there is a war.

In the early months of the first world war Kitchener promoted the idea of "pals" battalions, realising that men were more likely to enlist if they could serve alongside workmates and neighbours.

Nevertheless, there are others who could qualify and we should expect them to enlist, if they are as patriotic as they want us to believe.

But he was dedicated to the Army, friends said, and planned to re-enlist if he could get out long enough to have his shoulder repaired at a civilian hospital.

Now, the company says, 90percentt of the patients it invites to join a study accept, and of these 99percentt re-enlist if asked to be studied for a second disease.

(Marianne, speaking to Austin in her head about Billy: "He wouldn't have enlisted if you'd ever made him feel like a man".) The stand-alone introspective monologues, a specialty of Mr. Lucas, are better.

When it comes to instructing soldiers about the way ahead with gays serving openly, the military is taking time that, under the circumstances, will pay dividends by establishing greater buy-in among all soldiers for the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and allowing hard-core opponents of homosexuality an opportunity to weed themselves out by not re-enlisting if they choose.

The legionaries were Roman citizens from the day they enlisted, if not before, and the auxiliaries (after Claudius anyway) from the day they were discharged; and, though serving soldiers could not legally marry, many had mistresses whose children often became Roman citizens.

Elsewhere it has been apparent that members of the public can be enlisted if there's an incentive.

4. Heterosexuals will abandon the military if DADT is repealed - Last year, The Military Times came out with a survey claiming that a majority of respondents (58%) said they opposed openly gay service and 10% said they would not re-enlist if the ban was lifted.