Sentence examples for were conscripted by from inspiring English sources

Thousands of Latvians were conscripted by both Nazi Germany and the Soviets, under threat of imprisonment or death, to fight in the second world war.

As many as 20,000 child soldiers were conscripted by rebel forces, Human Rights Watch estimates, and Ms. Kamara-Umunna knew that many had been resettled as refugees.

Ngefa said the investigators spoke to two residents of the Yopougon neighbourhood, where the incident occurred, who were conscripted by the militiamen and forced to bury the dead.

In explaining the civilian deaths, military officials speculated that local people were conscripted by the Taliban to unload the fuel from the tankers, which were stuck near a river several miles from the nearest villages.

Eventually, space-based observatories - including the orbiting telescope that bears Hubble's name -- were conscripted by Sandage's competitors in pursuit of the same goal.

At the beginning of the scheme, Belgian firms were obliged to select 10 percent of their work force, but from 1943 workers were conscripted by age class.

(Maybe they've been conscripted by the Third Reich!

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

One recent Thursday night, Cheryl Vos, 25, a grad student, was conscripted by her roommate, Claudia Muñoz, 28.

In 1919, Rojankovsky, then in Ukraine, was conscripted by the White Army to fight in the Russian Civil War.

"I was conscripted by the story, and I was writing it at all times — whenever there was any opening.