conscript

Trudging through snow, a young Finnish conscript carefully draws a thin blue wire between two pine trees.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

Tired as Illia is, the idea of fighting alongside a petrified conscript in a trench is not an appealing one.

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

Unfortunately, it cannot temporarily conscript public roads as the also fading auto racing industry can do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

“I told him you are my brother. He said he will make sure nobody comes here to conscript you.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The BBC contacted the Myanmar government's Central Body for Summoning People's Military Servants regarding incidents mentioned in this story, including the forced recruitment of conscripts and reports of abductions allegedly carried out in recent months.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The conscripts then do up to 15 months compulsory training before going back into civilian life, in employment or higher education.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The dumb conscripts are given instant gratification and money.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

We joined a training session for Denmark’s conscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was as if the elderly man’s leaving had angered him and that he held not the second soldier but the new conscripts responsible.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Now Kyaw Myint is worried about them being conscripted -- "not only by the military but also by ethnic armed groups", he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Who would not want to believe that drones and robots can do the job, rather than a member of your own family, roughly conscripted on the streets of your own hometown?

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

His grandfather had fled their village in 1948 to avoid being conscripted in the civil war that was upending millions of lives.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

With able-bodied German men conscripted to fight in the war, workers from the lands the Nazis occupied were drafted to meet the labor shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Based on their experiences in the Great War, people assumed women and children would be safe, but able-bodied men would be conscripted into the German army as forced laborers.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Temporary arrangements to continue it were formally ended by the court last year, forcing the government to begin conscripting the community.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

On November 19, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government was required to present an effective proposal for conscripting the ultra-Orthodox.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

The government is conscripting people to live on Martian colonies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

“If it has come to this, that you are conscripting somebody my age, then Biafra has died,” the elderly man said quietly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie