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  • Therefore, the bottom-line question is this: would that collapse have created unnecessary tragic consequences, far beyond its forced conscriptions?

    The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009

  • Therefore, the bottom-line question is this: would that collapse have created unnecessary tragic consequences, far beyond its forced conscriptions?

    The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009

  • The Taliban often resorted to forced conscriptions - kidnappings - to fill out its ranks.

    Joseph Margulies: Reality at Guant��namo No Match for the Rhetoric 2008

  • The "new draft," as its opponents have labeled it, is different in important respects from earlier conscriptions in U.S. history.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • The "new draft," as its opponents have labeled it, is different in important respects from earlier conscriptions in U.S. history.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • France served him with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him; but when men saw that after victory was another war; after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward, — they could not spend what they had earned, nor repose on their down-beds, nor strut in their chateaux, — they deserted him.

    Representative Men 2006

  • Napoleon and the mass of the people, his real strength lay in their conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims, not only when he courted, but when he controlled, and even when he decimated them by his conscriptions.

    Representative Men 2006

  • This dove-cot, or columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the contributions levied upon the farms by these light foragers, and the conscriptions exacted from the latter for the benefit of the table.

    Waverley 2004

  • The Jewish servants of the consulates are free from the poll-tax and other obnoxious contributions, and their Moorish servants are also exempt from government conscriptions.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Believing that the government has behaved unfairly, the opposition has criticised the fact that redrawing of conscriptions did not take place before the election dates were announced by Mugabe last

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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