Sentences with word «conscripts»

Insulin resistance and depressive symptoms in young adult males: Findings from Finnish military conscripts.

Healthy volunteers were recruited among students in the medical school, paramedic staff members, and conscripts of the Italian army.

They allege that they were conscripts in the country's compulsory military service and forced to work at the Bisha mine owned by Nevsun.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Between the Senegalese conscripts, the firing squads, and the French soldiers» «precious pinard,» you've recreated the feel of World War I in astonishing detail.

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

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.

This experimental regimen conscripts people suffering from multiple personality disorder and turns them into «triplets,» highly lethal operatives possessing three distinct personalities drawing from warrior / tough guy archetypes.

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.

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.

Fearing it would affect army conscripts, the government there banned mephedrone later that year.

By last year, 1 in 25 military conscripts was infected.

This population - based study examined the cohort of all 1,534,425 military conscripts in Sweden during 1969 - 1997 (covering a period when national service was compulsory in Sweden and including 97 - 98 % of all 18 - year - old men nationwide each year).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In one month, Geoff had overseen the arrival of 21 sick men from another camp, all conscripts from the mining villages of Rhondda.

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.

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

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.

«The Company expresses regret if certain employees of Segen were conscripts four years ago,» it said, while emphasizing it had been compelled to hire Segen.

Awate (not his real name) was among the National Service's first 12,000 conscripts.

Nevsun quickly responded by altering contracts with Segen to include an explicit guarantee that its Eritrean partner would not use conscripts and by requiring Segen employees provide discharge papers.

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

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

Human Rights Watch reached similar conclusions, citing «clear evidence» Segen workers suffered from inadequate food and shelter at Bisha, and that some were conscripts.

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.

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.

«The All Writs Act doesn't allow government to conscript a company into service if the company doesn't have the information... If the FBI is doing an investigation, it can't force the local locksmith to help it break into a house,» said Abdo.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Some of the most moving testimony in the volume is found in the circular letters Bonhoeffer composed to maintain contact with the pastors he had trained, almost all of whom were conscripted into military service and many of whom died in the war.

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.

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.

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.»

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

The clergy remained exempt from conscription, when that was introduced, but must have been aware that over the Channel, many of the French clergy had been conscripted — a result of the complete separation of Church and State.

Our goal should be to educate this desire in the proper order of love rather than allowing ourselves to be conscripted into the increasingly frantic efforts to sustain the postwar era by administering yet another round of the chemotherapy of disenchantment.

And I use it because it best describes what happens to people when they are conscripted to another person's idea of what ought must and should happen, no matter how noble.