Sentence examples for refuse the draft from inspiring English sources

Young men who refuse the draft will have alternatives, including work as medics or firefighters, under plans announced by Labor Minister Aleksandr Pochinok.

The documentary focusses on the two tracks that Ali ran on: his journey to boxing greatness and his journey to Islam, which led him to change his name, refuse the draft, and become a loud, funny, implacable, unbendable, unstoppable symbol of black liberation.

Jim Brown, the ex-running back and political activist, said on the Arsenio Hall show a few months ago that if he were to convene another summit of black athletes, like the one in Cleveland, in 1967, with the Celtics great Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor), among others, in support of Muhammad Ali's decision to refuse the draft, he wouldn't invite Bryant.

A JNA veteran told a journalist from the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat: In Bosnia and Herzegovina, President Alija Izetbegović made a televised appeal to Bosnian citizens to refuse the draft on the grounds that "this is not our war".

In contrast, Muhammad Ali's decision to refuse the draft and say "I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong" resulted in getting stripped of his title, being abandoned by almost every significant person in his life, pushed to bankruptcy, and hit with a five year Leavenworth prison sentence, which included revoking his passport.

For refusing the draft, he lost his freedom.

This meeting was Ali's first fight for 3½ years after his boxing ban for refusing the draft.

In World War II he refused the draft, and in his pacifist zeal, refused even to accept a conscientious-objector status.

He refused the draft and became a conscientious objector, convinced that systemic violence, even against a dark force like the Nazis, was wrong.

As long as conscientious objectors were from a small church that many Koreans regard as foreign and somewhat unorthodox, refusing the draft could be portrayed as un-Korean.

The lay-off [his 3-year exile after refusing the draft] had taken away his first set of gifts, so in Zaire he developed another.