Sentence examples for we conscripted from inspiring English sources

And I would start by asking — why were we conscripted, why were we impressed, in the drive towards our own destruction?. . .

That "we" she conscripted me into was as loathsome a designation as the "they" that has so often been the lens through which black people are viewed.

"Why are we being conscripted?

This is the brave, collaborative elegiac act to which we are conscripted by Levin's work.

We have conscripted the best of speakers and they are making national tours.

I'm very happy to say that we've conscripted Signe Brewster, a wonderful freelance writer you may remember from GigaOm, to write a couple of features for us each month on space, STEM topics and more.

"I was an officer in the Biafran army and saw active battle in the trenches and I keep telling people we were volunteers, we were never conscripted.

No wonder writers in this long tradition can sometimes feel that we've been conscripted for work that, though it may rip up a portion -- or much -- of our lives, is of imperative, if not uniquely redemptive, importance.

The Deutsches Museum in Munich, we learn, was conscripted into the state-led anti-Semitism, with a show called "The Eternal Jew" that drew more than 400,000 people in a few months beginning in late 1937.

In fact, what happened was that we went to war, conscripted millions of young men and sent them to France to be machine-gunned.

Some of the men with psychiatric disorders probably were not conscripted and we could only focus on those with a relatively early onset of psychiatric and neurological disorders.