Sentence examples for massive draft from inspiring English sources

To fight the War of the Second Coalition that began in 1799, the Directory mobilized three "classes," or age cohorts, of young men but encountered massive draft resistance and desertion in many regions.

Despite massive draft evasion and desertion, within a year almost three-quarters of a million men were under arms, the citizen-soldiers merged with line-army troops in new units called demibrigades.

Even before Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy, if you'll remember, there was a massive "draft Warren" effort to convince her to launch her own presidential bid.

The 2013 NBA offseason -- with the Dwight Howard saga, massive draft night deals and deep free agency class -- has proved entertaining, even if it lacked the cadre of superstar talent that's expected to arrive next summer.

The ensuing action, unfolding across 20 years and shifting between Sheffield and London (with detours to Australia), sucks in massive drafts of people and ­places.

In an effort to offer my readers a digest of the massive Senate ESEA draft, I wrote a series of six posts that can be accessed here.

As massive as the draft pick surrender was, franchise quarterbacks are difficult to find.

The legs are short, muscular and strong, with thick bone, but less massive than most draft breeds.

It was the first time in many centuries that massive numbers were drafted, with 1.5 million Frenchmen conscripted.

Rather than sympathizing with pacifists' and radicals' strategic concerns, he rebutted them, telling The New York Times that massive emigration of draft-age Americans could help end the war, and telling another reporter that going to jail was bad public relations.

No draft, just massive antiwar protest, the kind that took us years to build during the Vietnam era".