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con·script
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v.
/ kənˈskript/ [tr.] (often be conscripted)
enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services.
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n.
/ ˈkänˌskript/
a person enlisted compulsorily.
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'Busting' the anti-conscription legend.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...look at the gold-lettered anti-conscription memorial painted on the foyer walls...WHO VOTED AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF CONSCRIPTION. 1ST REFERENDUM--October, 28th, 1916 For Conscription 1,087,557 Against Conscription...
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The end of conscription in Europe?
Magazine article from: Contemporary Economic Policy; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of European countries to phase out conscription and construct all-volunteer forces...countries plan to retain some level of conscription. The disparity between those countries eliminating conscription and those retaining it cannot be accounted...
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Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925
Newspaper article from: Domes; 7/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...2000 Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia...the first attempt to examine military conscription in the region by social and political...combined with a comparative approach. Conscription was the main form of military recruitment...
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"We are alienating the splendid Irish race": British Catholic response to the Irish conscription controversy of 1918.
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Home Rule at the height of the conscription controversy in 1918 the Irish rejected...United Kingdom, which accented conscription as a necessity in January 1916, Ireland refused to have conscription imposed on her, even in 1918...
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"A very disagreeable business": confederate conscription in Louisiana.
Magazine article from: Civil War History; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...River in northeast Louisiana, faced conscription into the Confederate army. Rather...Scheuber was not subject to Confederate conscription and therefore could serve in someone...the dramatic impact of Confederate conscription on Southerners and the effect that...
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The conscription crisis, part III a Canadian tragedy ...(World War I)
Magazine article from: Esprit de Corps; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...coalition government if he would support conscription. But Laurier would not be tempted. He was concerned that conscription would not only destroy the unity...very few men. "How many men will conscription bring in?" he asked. "Just a...
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Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Olga Litvak. Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian...experience in the Russian empire as the conscription of Jewish child recruits for service...the tsar's army. Olga Litvak's Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian...
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What ain't broke: The renewed call for conscription
Magazine article from: Ideas on Liberty; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...increasing number of calls for a return to conscription. The draft was bad policy during the...amazing foolishness today. Renewed conscription would simultaneously reduce the quality...1940, when war was raging in Europe. Conscription persisted-with but a brief 15...
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Conscription dodgers drop, NATION
Newspaper article from: The Nation (Thailand); 4/6/1999; 419 words
; ...over the alleged evasion of military conscription by two sons of New Aspiration Party...undergo the process had dodged the conscription procedure, a smaller percentage than...and the rest were forced to undergo conscription. The army this year requires an additional...
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CONSCRIPTION WILL NOT EXCEED 20 MONTHS: TAIWAN DEFENSE MINISTER.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 11/13/2003; 697 words
; ...the implementation of a 20 month conscription period has yet to be approved. Quoting Article 16 of the Conscription Law, Lu said it is clearly stipulated...the implementation of a 20-month conscription period must be based on legislation...
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Conscription
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
CONSCRIPTION Compulsory enrollment and induction into the military service. Conscription is commonly known as the draft, but the concepts are not exactly the same. Conscription is the compulsory induction of individuals into the armed services...
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conscription
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
conscription compulsory enrollment of personnel for service in...nation was a potential soldier and could by means of conscription be required to serve in the armed forces. Conscription in the modern sense of the term dates from 1793...
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Enrollment Act (1863) (The Conscription Act)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...Enrollment Act (1863) (The Conscription Act) Daniel W. Hamilton T he...fought in the war as draftees. Conscription was most important for its social...most serious reaction to the Conscription Act took place in New York...
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Conscription and Recruitment
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
CONSCRIPTION AND RECRUITMENT CONSCRIPTION AND RECRUITMENT. The U.S. armed services fills most of...American concept, distinct from the European practice of conscription, which involves the regularized training of the entire male...
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Conscription Act of 1917
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Conscription Act of 1917 see Selective Service Act of 1917.
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