conscription
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Denmark has made women eligible for conscription and extended conscripts’ service to 11 months from four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Jews came to America in large numbers in the last decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries, fleeing czarist restrictions on their freedom and a 25-year conscription in the Russian army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"If everyone is silent, then why would it stop? I understand the problem of conscription, but no official has the right to act like this."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In February 2024, the military activated conscription legislation, aiming to bolster its ranks by forcibly recruiting 50,000 citizens.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Families who had hidden their boys during the last conscription volunteered them now.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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