Sentence examples for peacetime draft from inspiring English sources

The country's first peacetime draft took place in September 1940.

He gave Roosevelt the critical support he needed for a peacetime draft, an unpopular idea at the time.

With the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, the peacetime draft was ended, and the army was returned to volunteer status.

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, created the country's first peacetime draft.

Raising the spectre of a German invasion of the Western Hemisphere, he convinced Congress to enact the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

Whether or not a peacetime draft would help defuse current tension between the United States and Iran (a highly debatable suggestion), the question is: at what cost?

Also, in the mid-20th century, Robert Taft staunchly denounced the peacetime military draft, arguing that it smacked of a totalitarian state.

Most of the troops in the division were selective service soldiers, conscripted as a part of the US Army's first peacetime military draft.

My generation, for example, is the last to remember the Second World War, and was the first to be subject to the draft in peacetime.

In 1956 I was drafted to the peacetime army.

Some observers detect an attempt by younger party members to position themselves as successors to ageing security chiefs like Wolfgang Schäuble, the interior minister.In their quest for security the authors may be too eager to weaken safeguards against misuse of power (a draft version of the paper suggested that the line between peacetime and a state of war had disappeared).