Sentences with phrase «of conscripts»

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

- 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.

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.

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

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.»

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 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.

Was the human identity of Jesus that is conscripted through his socioeconomic locatedness an embarrassment to these Hindu - Christian theologians?

@ Reality the nerd of his word,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, You oh conscripted general of continuating one's duo - geneticsms of constantly reposting the same old narcissistic dribble over and over and over!

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.).

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

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.

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.

The prime minister has paid tribute to the «incredibly important» contribution of the young men conscripted into coal mining during the second world war.

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.

So scientists have been finding innovative new ways of peering beneath the swells, conscripting everything from seals to climate models to improve their grasp of marine temperature trends.

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).

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.

Scorsese also puts the combat in Five Points within the context of the riots in New York after the Union began conscripting soldiers.

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.

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.

Many of his performers are conscripted into military service, and his equipment and possessions are declared government property, though the state fails to maintain it properly, or even to give him access to the material to fix it himself.

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 cowardly military media relations officer is conscripted to the front lines of a counter attack during an alien invasion and finds that he keeps reliving the same day over and over again.

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.

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

But survive some inhabitants do; after all, it would be more than a bit tricky to build a turn - based strategy game without a plethora of units to conscript and command.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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