Voorbeelden van conscription

• I wondered if compulsory conscription might be a factor in making young people more responsible.

• My grandfather emigrated from Germany in the 1850s to avoid conscription.

• They first faced military conscription during the Civil War.

• But such organized resistance was rare, and once called up, few soldiers dodged conscription and even fewer deserted.

• These have included publications exploring popular medicine, the introduction of compulsory education for children, and, most dramatically of all, the imposition of military conscription.

• They paid taxes, obeyed administrators and contributed to military conscription, but strived to maintain cultural hegemony over what they considered as their sacred space.

• One possibility is simply under-registration of males because they were escaping military conscription.

• The repeated and prolonged military campaigns would not have been possible without military conscription: its impact on the agricultural economy was far from negligible.