Sentences with phrase «conscripts working»

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

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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.
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.
One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body's immune cells and make them work for them.
Waldorf schools were closed, and my grandfather was conscripted to work in a chemical munitions factory — it was a miracle he survived the war.
The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America's agricultural industry.
Work Experience (in alphabetic order): bartender, book reviewer, brain study subject, caretaker, carpenter, caterer, coach, conscript, counselor, editor, farm worker, fashion exec assistant, fish market packer, foreign correspondent, garbage compactor, gardener, grip, house painter, human rights researcher, journalist, lawn mower, library aide, lifeguard, literary agent assistant, mover, music teacher, office aid to Rabbi, proofreader, publishing intern, recycling inspector, road worker, sternman, stock analyst, stringer, substitute teacher, swim instructor, technology teacher, trail maintainer, transcriber, translator, tree planter, tunaboat crewman, tutor, waiter, website consultant.
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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.
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..
They allege that they were conscripts in the country's compulsory military service and forced to work at the Bisha mine owned by Nevsun.
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