Sentence examples for war draft from inspiring English sources

His graduate education in international affairs was cut short by the Korean War draft.

(Historians say the 1863 Civil War draft riots were the largest uprising in the city's history).

They had enrolled in graduate school immediately after college, in part to avoid becoming eligible for the Vietnam War draft.

Defying the second world war draft, he became one of the first black conscientious objectors and served time in prison.

Pick a major event in the city, such as the Civil War draft riots or the General Slocum maritime disaster.

To avoid the Vietnam War draft, Mr. Herr said, he enrolled in New York University's film school and studied with Martin Scorsese.

He analyzed Civil War draft and pension records, linking them to mid-19th-century and early 20th-century census records to show how improved health enhances economic productivity.

NAOMI KLEIN, the author of "No Logo", is the child of a pair of Americans who moved to Canada to escape the Vietnam war draft.

Being stripped of a scholarship, and conceivably being kicked out of school, meant not only losing that dream but becoming instantly eligible for the Vietnam War draft.

In his latest book on policing, Thomas A. Reppetto explores 150 years of domestic security in New York City, from the Civil War draft riots through 9/11.

Lots of establishments at the time were desperately hanging on to their conservative, largely traditional European religious sensibilities while the city was being invaded by heretical U.S. anti-war draft dodgers and assaulted by French separatist bomb-throwers.