Sentence examples for foreign enlistment from inspiring English sources

In principle, mercenaries are regulated by the 1870 Foreign Enlistment Act.

As it happens, the British government did threaten people leaving the country to join the International Brigades, by reviving the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870.

Bulloch's shipboard entertainment had been a clever ruse to enable the Enrica to get to sea mere hours before it was to be impounded by British customs agents enforcing the Foreign Enlistment Act.

The Foreign Enlistment Act of 1819 prevented British subjects from selling or arming warships to either belligerent, a prohibition reinforced in May 1861 by a proclamation of neutrality from Queen Victoria.

Lord Russell received Adams' communication on Friday, July 25, and immediately sought a legal opinion from John Harding, the Queen's counsel and an expert on the Foreign Enlistment Act.

Whether it be the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 or the Terrorism Act 2000, there is no shortage of offences with which to prosecute those who go abroad to fight or train and who may threaten us on their return.

The expulsion was the culmination of a long-simmering dispute over the enlistment of foreign nationals in the Confederacy.

There is legislation, the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870, that made it illegal for any Briton to enlist in a foreign army at war with a state at peace with the UK, but it proved useless when nearly 3,000 Britons, most famously George Orwell, went to fight in the Spanish civil war in the 1930s.

A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department not to block fast-tracked citizenship applications that it promised to about 2,000 foreign-born U.S. Army Reserve soldiers under their enlistment contracts.

U.S. Army recruiters have abruptly canceled enlistment contracts for hundreds of foreign-born military recruits since last week, upending their lives and potentially exposing many to deportation, according to several affected recruits and former military officials familiar with their situation.

The United States Army has canceled the enlistment contracts of hundreds of foreign-born recruits who joined through the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program (MAVNI), according to a report published Friday by the Washington Post.