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Drury himself had been defeated as a conscriptionist Liberal candidate in 1917.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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It was the conscriptionist group of Liberals in Ottawa that decided upon the Convention, whether on the advice of Mr. Dafoe is not generally known.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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There was a strong conscriptionist group of Liberals in Ottawa.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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There, conscriptionist Liberals called the Convention for the purpose of proclaiming win-the-war independence of Laurier and considering
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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Every man in France and Flanders is a conscriptionist; every man believes that the only way to win this war is to turn into the forces of Britain every available bit of man-power within this Empire -- and that is by conscription.
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The conscriptionist countries, on the other hand, have always looked askance at women's claims, and who has not heard German women complain "It's all very well for you to talk, but you don't know what it means to live in a country where everything is secondary to the training of the warrior male"?
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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"You do not need to know," laughed the conscriptionist; "the hen will attend to that without any help from you; and, anyway, we use incubators now and the hen is exempt from all family cares -- she can have a Career if she wants to."
The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Duffy, labourer, and as such had been an ardent anti-militarist, anti-conscriptionist, and anti-everything else his labour leaders and agitators told him.
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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This would enable the government, with its majority and the support it would get from conscriptionist
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As drama, it was seriously injured by the obvious bias, by the want of impartiality; it was taken by some to be a warning that we must not trust to the Territorials; but, although the conscriptionist party has welcomed it as establishing their view, its manifest injustice to the citizen soldier has actually caused it to be used as an argument the other way.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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