Sentence examples for escape service from inspiring English sources
One of the negative aspects of the Vietnam-era draft was that it allowed the privileged many ways to escape service.
Even if local communities or state militia officers applied pressure, British subjects were normally able — often with the assistance of their consuls — to escape service.
Until recently, PTSD was a stigmatized status equated with cowardice or lack of resilience or, even worse, with malingering to escape service or to receive unmerited compensation.
But the final spark was provided by the new National Conscription Act, which made virtually all able-bodied men eligible for the draft but allowed the well-to-do to escape service in the Union Army by paying a $300 fee.
Anyone caught trying to escape service will likely be arrested and detained for a lengthy period of time often in the extensive network of underground prisons, or in shipping containers at blazing temperatures.
And when they have escaped, services based on their individual needs to help them and their children rebuild their lives are increasingly scarce.
In one encounter, a juror tried to escape her service by detailing her many racial biases, and he punished her by ordering her to continue serving in perpetuity.
One of my most vivid courtroom experiences has been sitting in the Old Bailey on a Monday morning and watching the large pool of potential jurors whittled down to the proportion who arrive without the means or wit to escape jury service.
In 1962 James Joseph Dresnok and Charles Jenkins thought they could escape military service in South Korea if they fled north.
