Sentence examples for enlist only from inspiring English sources

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But with one week to go, the city expected to enlist only about 1,300 new officers, not the 1,589 it had planned to add to the force, according to police officials who have been told of the shortfall.

When news comes that Fort Sumter has been fired upon, Austin declares his intention to enlist, only to be thwarted by his father, who will not countenance the loss of a son.

Even though he all but secured the Republican nomination by mid-February, Mr. McCain has so far managed to enlist only a fraction of the heavyweight bundlers of campaign contributions who helped drive President Bush's two runs for the White House, an examination of Mr. McCain's fund-raising network shows.

The Navy seeks to enlist only those with high moral character.

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Despite substantial pay increases for soldiers who agree to re-enlist, only about 75 percent do, he said.

When he was still in school during WWI, he enlisted only to have the war end immediately.

Here he enlists only the bassist Vicente Archer and the drummer Johnathan Blake, in a rigorous and possibly illuminating trio format.

Mr. Bennett said late Wednesday that even if Ms. Kraushaar enlisted only Ms. Bialek for her briefing, she would go forward nonetheless.

But through June, the active-duty Army had enlisted only 47,121 recruits of its overall goal of 80,000, a rate that leaves too great a gap to make up, officials said.

The very youthful Cabot Jackson Russel, now a captain in the 54th, was a younger cousin who, after Putnam's death, had been sent on a western expedition to prevent him from enlisting, only to telegraph his father from Nevada after the death of yet another cousin.

Also among the seven who died in the explosion were Operations Specialist Second Class Timothy Lamont Saunders of Ringgold, Va., and Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels of Norfolk, Va., Seaman McDaniels had enlisted only last summer and soon decided not to make a full career at sea, his mother, Diane McDaniels, said in her Norfolk apartment.

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