national service
Example Sentences
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Prosperity itself can be a form of national service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Today, we are losing the sense of connection between individual action and national service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Instead, he reasons that he might be assigned other tasks, based on the skills and experience he has gained since his national service two decades ago.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Last week, Swiss voters widely rejected a proposal to extend national service - in the military, civil protection teams or other forms - to women.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
It appears that Sir Robert relies in part upon these frightful falsehoods for effecting a national service by rousing the fears of the Roman Catholic landholders.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
