Sentence examples for exempt from service from inspiring English sources

Wealth allowed alternatives and created resentments; in the South a "20 Negro law" meant that planters with 20 or more slaves would be exempt from service.

If he chooses the former, he is exempt from service; if he chooses the latter, he can search for work, but, unlike under the previous law, he can do so only after enlisting in the army for a shortened period.

During the two world wars, coal miners were often exempt from service, because their jobs were essential to the war effort, and miners retain the sense that they are risking danger to benefit their country.

To date, the Russian government has not outlined rules governing the activities of Internet-based phone services, leaving most telecommunication service companies exempt from service quality and state control, the company said.

Although many very religious Jews, like the ones I worked with, had long volunteered to serve, those who chose to dedicate their lives to the study of the Torah had been officially exempt from service since 2002, and some had been exempt since the founding of Israel.

Members of the Force were exempt from service as a peace officer or parish officer, and could not be compelled to serve on a jury; field officers could not be required to serve as a high sheriff.

Ross feared that he would lose Shawn, and was relieved only when Shawn was exempted from service because he and his wife, Cecille, had a son.

Burra, exempted from service on account of his chronic ill-health, was concerned to learn in 1940 of a severe shortage of paintbrushes: apparently they had been bought up by servicemen keen to fill their long evenings under canvas.

The Military Service Act, which came into force in March 1916, allowed for objectors to be exempted from service on religious, moral and political grounds, but their appeals were judged by a military tribunal.

I was handed over to the military police and I was put in prison for three months for being gay, but I was exempted from service.

In a recent Finnish study, psychosocial problems were more prevalent among men who interrupted their service compared with those exempted from service at call-up [ 19].