She starts as a scabby, dirty-minded teenager in wartime Danzig, who gets conscripted as a tram conductor.
If you were a Vietnam veteran and you came back and you walked in the street in uniform, it was not uncommon for people to harass you: "You were over there doing mean and nasty things and shooting babies". Well, they were soldiers who got conscripted in through the draft, which you don't have today.
A dealer we'd used as a source for a story on the Sarajevo drug market had gone home to Croatia, got conscripted, and then called us, somehow, from the front line, leaving a frenzied message: "You cannot imagine what is happening here!" He didn't leave his number in the trenches, and I don't think we would have called him if he had.
Washington, London, Moscow, Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo, Pretoria -- all have conscripted themselves into the war.
It also contains healthy cells that have been conscripted into the cause.
Suppose, by way of analogy, that a group of people find themselves conscripted into a World-War-I-type conflict — they're thrown together in a platoon and stationed out in no man's land, where over time a kind of miniature society gets created, with its own loves and hates, hope and joys, and of course its own grinding, life-threatening routines.
But like draftees, they have been conscripted to meet the additional needs in Iraq.
The black men who live in town have been conscripted to keep the river from flooding.
Soon, many districts were finding makeshift ways of getting by – including Caddo Parish, which conscripted tax attorneys, real estate attorneys and other novice recruits from the private bar to fill in for the overwhelmed defenders.
However, Druze Arabs have always been conscripted, exactly like Jews, and many hold high ranks in the army; Bedouin Arabs are not conscripted but volunteer.
