Sentences with phrase «conscripted for»

When attorneys» services are conscripted for the public good, such a taking is akin to the taking of food or clothing from a merchant or the taking of services from any other professional for the public good.

He was conscripted for active service during World War II and after a year or two of drifting he attended the Black Mountain College under the famed tutelage of Josef Albers, a Bauhaus founder.

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.

Fan is used and conscripted for various causes and the fate she meets, crafted slowly into myth, narrated in the voice of the collective citizens of B - Mor, is one the reader gets deeply invested in.

The most significant decision, besides casting the sympathetic Cardona, is the choice of story: the conflict is simply that Jose wants to play in soccer league finals with his buddies on his day off, Sunday, when his boss has conscripted him for a private party.

«National Service» means that Singaporean men are conscripted for two years while women are exhorted to counter a falling birthrate.

The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason, which in 1793 placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion, in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar in the Church of Our Lady in Paris.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

If the spiritual forces that are at war with God were driven back in the creation event, then God Himself is driven back by these chaotic forces when they conscript mankind to fight for their evil cause against God.

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.

That the only way to live for another day was to offer your daughters up to be raped by the warlords and your sons to be conscripted into their horrific army.

It was so heavy that a Cyrenian, Simon by name, had to be conscripted to carry it for him.

Militarily Ukraine is also in a very weak position, with a conscript army that could itself fragment into Ukrainian and Russian components if pushed into military action, and a command echelon that seems to be prepared (given the sacking of the army chiefs by both Yanukovych and the new acting president Turchynov) to prefer caution and neutrality rather than be an instrument for splitting the country any further than it already is.

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.

The foreign secretary David Miliband's attack on the Conservative party chairman, Eric Pickles — for suggesting that Latvians who had joined the Waffen SS Volunteer Legion were only «conscripts» following orders — has drawn inevitable invective from Tories, including shadow foreign secretary William Hague.

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.

One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body's immune cells and make them work for them.

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

The performances are also exemplary, but it is primarily a film of great moments — the climactic sequence of the young conscript reaching out for a butterfly in the sun — that, once seen, are never forgotten.

So thank goodness for Criterion and EA, who conscripted the «Hoff to appear in the latest trailer for the just - released downloadable Xbox Kinect game Burnout: Crash.

It's only now, after being conscripted by hard - nosed secret service supervisors Alan Blunt (Bill Nighy) and Mrs. Jones (Sophie Okonedo) that Alex discovers his future has been mapped out for him.

In other news, Ryan Murphy, who has yet to meet an 80s or 90s cinema goddess he doesn't want to shower with a juicy part (see: Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett), has conscripted Jamie Lee Curtis for his upcoming horror / comedy anthology series, Scream Queens.

While recalling two of Sanjay Mishra's finest films in recent times, Ankhon Dekhi and Masaan (the former for the theme of a man past his prime suddenly seeking to extend the conscripted parameters of his life, and the latter for its Varanasi setting), this film is another beast altogether.

But the movie makes its case for empathy for these teens amid the fog of war (boys, really, conscripted to Hitler's army) persuasively and with a great cast.

The conscripted job becomes the man's alter ego, in which he morphs into a flaming skeleton and rides the nights away looking for spirits who have escaped the confines of Hell.

Our jones for another Guardians of the Galaxy /»80s fix now makes a conscript of Spielberg, and for that matter Wes Anderson.

Production continued until February 1942; however, those vehicles were conscripted by the U.S. Government for military use.

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.

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.

I was a conscript soldier, and I've been on enough grim rescues, with praying families, and prayed myself searching for lost children, to know that is almost always true.

Belgium, Holland and the Hanseatic cities were not conscripted independently, for they were considered an integral part of the French Empire.

If you've ever watched a horror movie and thought the bad guy would be far more interesting if he was reluctantly conscripted into a Mission Impossible style spy - team, then this is the book for you.

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.

Not long after that he is conscripted into hacking the world's most advanced artificial intelligence, SHODAN, in exchange for his charges to be dropped.

You'll also find bits and pieces in the liberation missions, which range from burning diseased blankets, standing up for hungry children, or freeing conscripts from their service to King George.

Color Field and Solid Grey (2013), which was recently installed at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester, New York, is a Technicolor quilt of quill - like spikes of beads, a nod to the grasslands of KwaZulu - Natal and a wilder version of Back Yard (1996 — 99), for which Lou conscripted volunteers to help her construct 250,000 green - glass - beaded blades of grass.

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.

Though not conceived for recreation or racing, they have often been conscripted into those rolls too.

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..

I am sure Jackson would have preferred to remain in place to see all his reforms completed but the conscripted retirement age for the judiciary has seen him leave the bench at the height of his career.

In the present case it amounts in my judgment to conscripting the mother and mother - in - law to the services of the appellant and his children for the benefit of the tortfeasor and any reduction of the award on this basis is and was an error in principle.

For this purpose, the military deployed or provided forced labour, conscripted under Eritrea's National Service Program,» said the ruling.