Sentences with phrase «conscripts who»

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.

Elwood's a loveable rogue, a conscript who's managed to turn his military servitude into a blossoming network of black market deals — more out of boredom than ambition.

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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 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.

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.

His father was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during the second world war during a forced conscription process in which the Nazis executed 25 men who resisted.

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.

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.

The Bridge on the River Kwai Year: 1957 Directed by: David Lean Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness Why it's essential: This British WWII epic centers on a British colonel and POW in the Japanese theater who is conscripted to help the Japanese build a bridge, while American allied forces plot to blow said bridge up.

She joins a long and distinguished roster of the world's best actresses who have been conscripted into playing dystopian authoritarians.

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.

Cage's character is essentially a superhero who is unwittingly conscripted to help prevent the overthrow of the Devil by his even more evil son Blackheart.

Shani Boianjiu's eye - opening and brutally honest debut novel chronicles the abrupt coming - of - age of three young Israeli girls — Yael, Lea and Avishag — who grow up in a small village, attend high school together and are conscripted soon afterward into the Israeli army.

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.

The show opening in February will include a new work titled The Painter — an installation based on the real story of a Jewish - Tunisian painter who emigrated to Israel before being conscripted in the Yom Kippur war and suffering years of post traumatic stress disorder afterwards.

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.

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..

In the case of military conscription, someone who does not serve due to a moral opposition to war in general (and not just a particular war) is called a conscientious objector and in most countries, is usually allowed to perform alternative mandatory government service in lieu of military service if conscripted.

Efforts to sue the company are on behalf of more than 1,000 people who allegedly «had been conscripted into the military under the Eritrean National Service Program and deployed at the mine,» it said.