Sentences with phrase «on conscripts»

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

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

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 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.»

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.

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.

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.

Unfazed by the reservations, Porter and his fellow counselor, Malcolm Moore (Xzibit), conscript a group of juvenile delinquents to practice on the compound's green area.

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.

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso Every magic user in the Raverran Empire is conscripted into service, and jesses are placed on their wrists to prevent the using of magic.

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.

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.

Or that later on that same nemesis would join up with Mario (or rather conscript him into the Koopa Troop) to try and take back his castle from Smithy and his gang?

The strain between a father and his son was further increased as first was conscripted into the German army, sent to the eastern front, before ending up captured by the allies on the western front and spending the last days of the war as a POW.

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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.

Fossil Fuels kill 320 times more people per unit power produced than solar + / Egyptians... There is something satisfying about visualizing oil company executives conscripted to toil under the hothouse conditions on 21 st Century Earth building the Great Carbon Pyramids - pyramids of calcium carbonate (or calcium bicarbonate, as the case may be) miles high, /

Before trial, the criminal law seeks to protect an accused from being conscripted against him - or herself by the confession rule, the right to remain silent in the face of state interrogation into suspected criminal conduct, and the absence of a duty of disclosure on the defence: R. v. Hebert, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 151.

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.

On this view, the Rule of Law means that, to conscript Chief Justice Marshall's famous words, «[i] t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.»

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.