conscientious objector
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con·sci·en·tious ob·jec·tor
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n.
a person who for reasons of conscience objects to serving in the armed forces.
DERIVATIVES:
con·sci·en·tious ob·jec·tion n.
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Albright's Middle East Agenda Should Include Jailed Israeli Conscientious Objectors, Says Amnesty International
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 9/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...Often conscientious objectors are repeatedly prosecuted...arrest of a Druze conscientious objector, Walid Muhammad...on Conscientious Objectors In Israel -- Yehuda...In June 1998 the Conscientious Objection Committee...recognize him as a conscientious objector. ...
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Albright's Middle East Agenda Should Include Jailed Israeli Conscientious Objectors Says Amnesty International
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 9/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...Often conscientious objectors are repeatedly prosecuted...arrest of a Druze conscientious objector, Walid Muhammad...on Conscientious Objectors In Israel -- Yehuda...In June 1998 the Conscientious Objection Committee...recognize him as a conscientious objector. ...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS PEAK DURING WARTIME.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 4/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...discharges as conscientious objectors if they oppose...conviction. "I am a conscientious objector because there...conscientious objectors refused to fight...were granted conscientious objector status during...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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War's conscientious objectors can't wait until they feel a draft.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 3/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...conscientious objector legal groundwork...the rights of conscientious objectors to war and violence...conscientious objectors summit at the...qualifying as a conscientious objector "codify the...conscientious objector is a time...notion that ...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/22/1991; 700+ words
; ...County, NJ) 09-22-1991 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW Date...members who had filed for conscientious objector status. The decision to...recognize the viability of conscientious objector status, it cannot...
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SOME WON'T HEED CALL TO ARMS BY LAW, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS ARE EXCUSED FROM FIGHTING
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/4/1991; 700+ words
; ...a conscientious objector and what effect...be described as conscientious objectors, but whether their...seeking advice about conscientious objection. Robert...discharged as a conscientious objector. Now, as associate...
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Equality with a vengeance: female conscientious objectors in pursuit of a voice and substantive gender equality.(Israel)
Magazine article from: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...provisions that address conscientious objection, and...towards female objectors. (7) As a result...petition of a female conscientious objector who was denied...separate right to conscientious exemption should...
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GIs, Conscientious Objectors and World War II
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/21/1995; 700+ words
; ...service of 1940s conscientious objectors as "at least...conscientious objectors did so because...registered as a conscientious objector, refused to be...that some of the conscientious objectors during World War...
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COLUMN: Conscientious Objector Day?
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...than combat veterans. Conscientious objectors have been around as long...Sergeant York," was a conscientious objector -- before he won the...line on Oct. 8, 1918. Conscientious objectors like Sergeant York deserve...
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Conscientious Objectors in Prison World-wide: War Resisters' International calls for letters to prisoners for peace
Magazine article from: Peacework; 12/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...peace activists and conscientious objectors. This year, WRI...includes imprisoned conscientious objectors peace...outspoken conscientious objectors, most of whom belong...promote the concept of conscientious objection to military...
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Conscientious Objectors
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...objection if the objector could provide...this manner, conscientious objectors differed little...conscientious objector status. Nevertheless...to conscript conscientious objectors for noncombatant...conscientious objectors comprising just...Recognition of ...
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Conscientious Objector
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...obtain conscientious objector status. A conscientious...as a conscientious objector. Under prior draft laws, conscientious objectors were divided into...military service. These conscientious objectors were drafted...the sincerity of an objector's belief is ...
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conscientious objector
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
conscientious objector person who, on the grounds of...separate category. The problem of conscientious objectors, although present in different...treatment, and about 5,000 conscientious objectors were imprisoned in the...
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conscientious objectors
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
conscientious objectors ( COs ). Contrary to expectations...states first made provision for conscientious objection, their procedures still...themselves on refusing to recognize conscientious objection, as did the Soviet Union...
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The Schwimmer Case: Citizenship and the Conscientious Objector
Book article from: American Decades
THE SCHWIMMER CASE: CITIZENSHIP AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR A Pacifist Professor In August 1921 Prof...the majority, declaring: "The influence of conscientious objectors against the use of military force in defense...
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