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  • The concept of well equipped also includes the, english/brittish/uk whatever concept of the previous times, when every young man of conscriptable age must be trained in the use of a bow, I think was the thing back then.

    Bang Bang Bang « Whatever 2007

  • The computer had detected additional conscriptable life-forms after the initial transport procedure was complete.

    A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000

  • We have a number of speakers here tonight, some of them young men of conscriptable age, and some few others.

    Speech At A Meeting Of The No-Conscription League 1917

  • My friends, the only reason that prevents me telling you men of conscriptable age not to register is because I am an Anarchist, and I do not believe in force morally or otherwise to induce you to do anything that is against your conscience, and that is why I tell you to use your own judgment and rely upon your own conscience.

    Speech At A Meeting Of The No-Conscription League 1917

  • Did any one of you receive the impression that the man was of conscriptable age, and if not, in what possible way is the giving of MOTHER EARTH to a reporter for news purposes proof demonstrating the overt act?

    Address To The Jury 1917

  • Some of them are beyond the conscriptable age, and are not themselves liable, but who fight in this issue just as if they were liable themselves.

    Speech At A Meeting Of The No-Conscription League 1917

  • The first speaker is a young man of conscriptable age, the headmaster of a modern school at Stony Ford, New York.

    Speech At A Meeting Of The No-Conscription League 1917

  • Did any one of you receive the impression that the man was of conscriptable age, and if not in what possible way is the giving of MOTHER EARTH to a report for news purposes proof demonstrating the overt act?

    Address to the Jury 1917

  • If the Irish race had been conscriptable by England in the war against the United Colonies is it certain that your Republic would to-day flourish in the enjoyment of its noble Constitution?

    Ulster's Stand For Union Ronald John McNeill 1897

  • ''A lot of them had been press-ganged off the streets ... they were of conscriptable age, so they were just grabbed, put into uniform and whacked on to a ship.

    The Age News Headlines 2010

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