Sentence examples for were not conscripted from inspiring English sources

Britain was able to mobilise the largest volunteer army in history during the first and second world wars (that is to say, people elected to join and were not conscripted) when fighting fascism.

Medical women were not conscripted, but I decided to go into the army and in September 1942, I received a telephone call.

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.

"So much so," he continues, "that he was not conscripted during the Second World War.

"So much so," he continued, "that he was not conscripted during the second world war.

Because of his factory employment, he was not conscripted in the tsarist army during World War I.

In 1939, he tried to join the armed forces, but was not conscripted, as farm management was a reserved occupation.

However, Druze Arabs have always been conscripted, exactly like Jews, and many hold high ranks in the army; Bedouin Arabs are not conscripted but volunteer.

A common argument from contented, unworried football fans is that players in the N.F.L. are not conscripted into a violent game, but instead eagerly strive for it all their young lives and are richly rewarded with money and attention.

Retired Col. Eugene Holmes, then the commander of the Army ROTC program at the University of Arkansas, was quoted in Thursday's Wall Street Journal as saying that Clinton, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England, "was able to manipulate things" so that he was not conscripted in the fall of 1969.

He was not conscripted and he remained at Yale for the duration of the war.