draftee betydelse and definition

Exempel på draftee

• He wanted to express his opposition to an amendment proposed by Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia that would guarantee segregated units for those draftees who wished to serve only with members of their own race. 

• I paid two visits to the Divisional wing within a few days of each other, and on one occasion, on a baking July day, addressed a battalion of draftees who were about to be sent up to the front. 

• In World War II thousands of draftees were taught to read and write in the Army's literacy program. 

• The lesson, as enough taxpayers, defendants, welfare recipients, immigrants, asylum-seekers, draftees know, is that citizenship is a malleable status not a unitary identity.

• Thus, while teachers "select" into the intervention (some as early "volunteers," some as later "draftees," some not at all), children do not.

• By most accounts these draftees and volunteers were quite anxious to escape the rotting remains of former battlefronts and to return to the coveted comfort of their familial environs.

• Unlike the student demonstrator who publicly declares his opposition to the war and willingness to take on the authorities, the potential draftee faces much higher costs for his opposition.

• It is not a question of deciding whether somebody is a conscientious objector, whether they are a draftee, or whether they should have political asylum.