conscription

The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words the event seemed to hang, were as little voluntary as the actions of any soldier who was drawn into the campaign by lot or by conscription. This could not be otherwise, for in order that the will of Napoleon and Alexander (on whom the event seemed to depend) should be carried out, the concurrence of innumerable circumstances was needed without any one of which the event could not have taken place.

But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his-- "sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription. Alexey Alexandrovitch was immediately interested in the subject, and began seriously defending the new imperial decree against Princess Betsy, who had attacked it.

He informed her that she would never see her sweetheart again; for, in order to escape the conscription, he had married a rich old woman, Madame Lehoussais, of Toucques.

And when I have paid for the policeman who protects me and, if I live in a country where conscription is in force, served in the army which guards my house and land from the invader, I am quits with society: for the rest I counter its might with my wiliness.

You are included in the conscription, Fernand, and are only at liberty on sufferance, liable at any moment to be called upon to take up arms.

In the provinces, families marry their sons early to escape the conscription. In addition to all this, she was obstinately determined not to marry a soldier: she did not intend to take a man and then give him up to the Emperor; she wanted him for herself alone.

He was only eighteen years old when he was drawn in the great conscription of

One of the more vocal outcries against the system was that the poor and desperate were particularly harmed by conscription. English experience may have suggested the right of all countries to the personal service of citizens when the country requires them for defense, but it did not imply conscription.

SOME 16,000 conscientious objectors refused to fight in the war as conscription laws enlisted two-and-a-half million extra British troops from 1916 onwards.

Universal conscription (during WWII and later) enforcing military hats made them a hated reminder when conscription then ended in the 1960s.

Germany has told its citizens to stock up on water and food in the event of a terrorist attack or national catastrophe and may even consider reintroducing conscription in its first overhaul of civil defences in two decades.

The defence committee in Bulgariaas parliament has turned downA a proposal to reinstate the universal military conscription.