Sentences with phrase «conscripted as»

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

Now, on the eve of the ball sponsored by Prince Kai, Cinder's beloved stepsister Peony has succumbed to the deadly disease, and Cinder herself has been conscripted as one of the cyborg guinea pigs for the scientists trying to find a cure.

Armenian men were either conscripted as slave labor (which few survived), or killed outright.

And what of the children starving in Africa, being conscripted as child - soldiers in civil wars, etc., around the world?

Yury Zhivago had been captured by the Red Army and conscripted as a doctor.

- The memory of being taken away from their families as they were conscripted as forced laborers.

Not exact matches

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.

Zafrir, a former commander of Israel's famed intelligence corps, Unit 8200, told me that the conscripted Israeli military experience has become a major generator of entrepreneurial skills, as people are trained fast, learn how to cope with failure and how to innovate by achieving the impossible because lives depend on it.

And if this proved insufficient, his sister and his mother were conscripted to stand against him as well.»

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.

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.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was only a young teenager when he was REQUIRED by law (being a «law - abiding» citizen in America you would understand) to join Hitler's Youth Group and after turning 18 he was conscripted (as a patriotic American you can understand young men being drafted) into the German army, which, after a few months he deserted (that alone should make you respect him) and spent a few months as a German POW in an American POW camp.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

They might do, but as they're proud to be the first to conscript into national service they put themselves at odds with Christ's teachings.

But while Isaiah enters this service as a kind of involuntary volunteer, Jeremiah sees himself from the beginning a conscript, captive to a Word he would, if only he could, defy and ignore (see 20:7 ff.).

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.

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

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.

Almost 50,000 men aged 18 to 25 - roughly one out of every ten conscripts - worked as miners during and after the war to address labour shortages.

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.

As penance for his actions, Ralph is conscripted to the cross-country team.

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.

Callum Turner's performance as Bill is consistently engaging, as is that of David Thewlis in the role of Bradley, a to - the - letter army man railing against the insubordination he encounters from the conscripts.

Boorman's sequel Queen and Country opens in 1951 and we again meet Bill, now aged 18, as he is conscripted into the British Army against the backdrop of the Korean war.

A movie review of «Queen and Country,» John Boorman's semi-autobiographical film about his days as a conscript in the British 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.

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

Some schools are too timid — the evidence suggests that despite initial friction there can be just as much success when people are conscripted in to such processes as when given the chance to volunteer.

One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner.

The strain between a father and his son was further increased as first was conscripted into the German army, sent to the eastern front, before ending up captured by the allies on the western front and spending the last days of the war as a POW.

Some were active members of the armed forces, having volunteered or been conscripted into service; others were interned in labor or refugee camps; more were forced to flee, taking shelter in neutral countries, hiding in mountainous or rural areas, or relocating to New York, as was the case with a number of European artists in exile.

Hamilton first read Ulysses as a national service conscript after the second world war.

During World War II, he was evacuated from London, and upon returning, went to study at the Northampton School of Art between 1940 and 1941, before being conscripted into the Royal Air Force as a navigator.

When Jay Z appeared at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea last summer to film a video for the single «Picasso Baby» with a cast of celebrated art - world conscripts, it was Ms. Greenberg Rohatyn who subtly and with little fanfare acted as a guiding force.

Fossil Fuels kill 320 times more people per unit power produced than solar + / Egyptians... There is something satisfying about visualizing oil company executives conscripted to toil under the hothouse conditions on 21 st Century Earth building the Great Carbon Pyramids - pyramids of calcium carbonate (or calcium bicarbonate, as the case may be) miles high, /

Conscript — i.e. — make it compulsory for lawyers who want to practice in a jurisdiction to spend, say, one contiguous year in their first five years of practice in that jurisdiction working as lawyers for the Legal Corp..

There was no reason why they should not have the same protection as is afforded by Art 2 to a conscript.

In that respect they were in the same position as a conscript.

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.

«The appellants argue that the production order undermines their role as the eyes and ears of the community by effectively conscripting them into the ranks of law enforcement,» the court noted.

The Mirai botnet, as it's called, conscripted routers, smart fridges >>

A recent study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation.

The player is thus conscripted and charged with various tasks that range from fending off hoards of enemies as they bust their way in to igniting explosives in order to seal up holes.