Sentences with word «conscript»

Those bonds along with Arthur's leadership skills have forged the disgruntled band of conscripts into Britain's most formidable warriors.

The Scarlet Chorus are basically a horde of conscripts of conquered people with a terrifying amount of bloodlust.

Okay, so basically the show is a self - acknowledged rip - off of The Last Starfighter, the 1984 sci - fi classic in which a video game geek gets conscripted as a futuristic savior just for beating a video game.

Also at Horseshoe Cove, the army also established a hardworking Marine Repair Shop that provided on - going maintenance for the small civilian boats conscripted for use in the mine operation.

A blind Parisian girl and an orphaned German boy conscripted by the Nazis for his radio skills meet in the chaos of the American bombing of a French coastal resort.

That's because Segen employs conscripts from Eritrea's «National Service,» a program through which Eritrea enslaves many of its own citizens.

When young men were not conscripted into armies, they were increasingly channeled into schools, factories, and prisons, all of which helped to inculcate the ban on violence.

The demo I played showed the desperation of the Russians, using conscripts at every turn, infantry units using molotov cocktails instead of grenades, and most units starting off with weak equipment.

Ntaganda, who has been charged with war crimes for conscripting children under the age of 15 as child soldiers, is reliant on Rwanda for weapons, ammunition and young Rwandan recruits.

All of these dogs were taken care of by military service conscripts, were trained for about one year and relocated to Border Patrol training facilities.

Queen and Country stars Callum Turner and Caleb Landry Jones as Bill and Percy respectively, army conscripts who have completed basic training and spend their days toiling under the watchful eye of Bradley (David Thewlis in a wonderfully comedic turn) teaching new recruits how to type.

Scorsese also puts the combat in Five Points within the context of the riots in New York after the Union began conscripting soldiers.

Women and girls were raped and abducted, boys conscripted to terrorize and kill their own people.

The prime minister has paid tribute to the «incredibly important» contribution of the young men conscripted into coal mining during the second world war.

I.R.I.S.'s only ally is her engineer Pablo, who gets conscripted into the quest after his pant leg gets caught in her chassis.

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

Perhaps in trying to understand what does it mean to be an ethical lawyer by way of re-thinking To Kill a Mockingbird, we might begin by centering the conversation through race to attempt to come to know and recognize racial privilege and power, and exclusion of racialised bodies as conscripted through colonial forms of whiteness.

According to news reports, «Nevsun said it regretted if a state - controlled subcontractor it had been required to use had employed conscripts.»

If conscripts really did help build Bisha, then every Canadian citizen profited a little from slavery in a far - off land.

Amongst the statements in block capitals, a small section of white fabric features a handwritten text: «1982, A year so many conscripts did not got home — Because you, you killed them all».

Nevsun later strengthened procedures further: all workers at Bisha had to carry photo identification, a means of guarding against conscripts replacing previously cleared workers.

As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, even ordinary consumers have been unwittingly conscripted for this purpose — in this case, with no pay at all.

They were «conscripted prostitutes» to the colonial military in World War II; they were forced laborers in the military industries of Imperial Japan; they were forced migrants in search of work for survival.

The applicant was from the Central African Republic, where she was forcibly conscripted as a child to join the Lord's Resistance Army.

Conceived as a silly comedy about a shallow US celebrity talk show host and his producer conscripted to kill the leader of North Korea, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's second directorial effort (following last year's pleasant This is the End) is now always going to be about the absurdity that surrounded it in the weeks leading up to its release.

Russia spends a lot more on conscripts, so it has a numerically larger force that may not be as effective.

They are piloted by conscripted youth, age - locked in adolescence.

Even today, it is impossible to say whether conscripts actually helped build Bisha or not.

Instead, he claims conscripts were exploited by the ruling party.

A few months into construction, in early 2009, a person Nevsun describes as «a European or South African banking syndicate official» visiting Bisha told the company Segen might be using conscripts there.

Large numbers of conscripts working on the wall died, and those working on the mausoleum were killed to preserve the secrecy of the tomb.

But the morale of Bolivia's army of Indian conscripts was low, and Paraguayans were better fitted to fight in the lowland swamps and jungles, in which many Bolivians died of disease and snakebite as well as gunfire.

My wife speaks about her father - in - law (from her first marriage) who was conscripted sequentially by the Polish army, the German army, and finally the Russian army.

A public culture dominated by nihilism and relativism conscripts public authority to impose that nihilism and relativism on others through the coercive use of state power.

The Incarnate Word conscripts the tangibilities of ecclesial life, and even creation itself, to draw us into the divine life.

Thus, to conscript Prof. Smolin for the purpose of understanding Arkes, «while it is typical of skeptics that they see evil emanating from absolutes,» the warrant for that very judgment is one for which their skepticism can not account.

I do not want to upset anyone's individualized religious theologies and yet I see a faulted system of each religion's societies in generalizations unremarkable yet blatant conscripts of their elderly influences upon their religiously devoted youth - fields.

@ Reality the nerd of his word,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, You oh conscripted general of continuating one's duo - geneticsms of constantly reposting the same old narcissistic dribble over and over and over!

When you have conscripted partner, as in this case, don't leap to any contract which you can not reasonably expect to fulfill in your own hand.

It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

The group, which recruited and forcefully conscripted child soldiers, carried out scores of suicide bombings — many by young women and girls forced into doing so — and other attacks on population centers in the Northeast and in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

In the Upper Missouri River Basin, that could mean conscripting fields set aside as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which pays farmers to leave fields fallow for environmental benefits.

So scientists have been finding innovative new ways of peering beneath the swells, conscripting everything from seals to climate models to improve their grasp of marine temperature trends.

Of course he may look at it more as conscript labour than a date, but a little wine and food should smooth things out.

The First Order used internally conscripted Stormtroopers for at best summary executions and at worse extrajudicial killing for capital punishment.

It throws you in the deep end of marine boot camp where conscripts are stripped of all sense of individuality to be turned into killing machines, a process ferociously undertaken by one of the most evil and hateful characters you're ever likely to see on screen.