Sentence examples for were conscripted for from inspiring English sources

At 18, men were conscripted for two years of mandatory military service.

The husbands of some board members signed up, or were conscripted, for garbage duty (30 bags, three days a week).

But all sorts of other car parts were conscripted for this elaborate performance: suspension coils, ventilator screens, cranks for tire pumps.

According to official figures, 33,145 black Southern Rhodesians were conscripted for labour between 1943 and 1945; Vickery estimates that between 15,000 and 60,000 more may have worked on the aerodromes.

The study population consists of 49,321 Swedish males born 1949 to 1951 who were conscripted for Swedish military service 1969 to 1970.

The three others had all been conscripted for the Kaiser's war.

He feared it was because he had so far avoided being conscripted for compulsory military service.

Beer was disappearing and every bowl in the house had been conscripted for use as an ashtray.

Singapore's social safety net offers a bare minimum and all Singaporean men are conscripted for two years' national service.

In a country where 18-year-olds are conscripted for military service, many Israelis feel intimately involved with the case.

After arriving in Paris in 1940, Brassens worked in the Renault car factory and was conscripted for war work in Germany.