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.
She starts as a scabby, dirty-minded teenager in wartime Danzig, who gets conscripted as a tram conductor.
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.
The black men who live in town have been conscripted to keep the river from flooding.
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.
I can understand the desire not to have your life conscripted by race.
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.
While the Chinese government is pursuing happiness with a certain single-mindedness, happiness was conscripted into political service long before Thomas Jefferson got hold of it.
Conscription is practiced, and conscripted recruits enter the military for two years.
