conscription
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Townspeople fought over religious differences and lamented the conscription of Framlingham’s able-bodied men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Sweden reinstated conscription in 2018 and will call up 9,000 recruits this year, compared with 3,500 in 2018.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Hanna, like many thousands of young Eritreans fleeing conscription and in search of better opportunities, left the country - travelling secretively over the border without a passport.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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