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Six example sentences with conscription, each labelled with its topic.
Every French household with a son over twenty faced conscription in 1793, and the new armies swelled within months.
History
Parliament debated ending conscription for eleven hours, with rural members arguing that only volunteers should be sent abroad.
Politics
The screenplay follows a baker's apprentice whose number comes up in the conscription lottery three weeks before his wedding.
Movies
Economists note that conscription hides the true cost of an army, since the wages not paid never appear in the budget.
Economics
The novel's narrator faces conscription at eighteen, and the first hundred pages follow his last summer at home.
Literature
The court ruled that conscription could apply only to citizens over eighteen, striking down the lower age in the decree.
Law
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