conscripts in English
The speed with which it had been able to assemble and deploy such a conscript army conferred upon the German Confederation an advantage over the French, who struggled to get a smaller army into the field over a longer period of time.
Use "conscripts" in a sentence
1. Over half the army was composed of conscripts.
2. Several conscripts were seen to scuttle off barracks.
3. After 1943 most men from the east were conscripts.
4. Many conscripts resent having to do their military service.
5. The remainder were foreign (both German and non-German) volunteers or conscripts.
6. In the end, the troops collected only about 40 conscripts from Elberfeld.
7. Equipment is decrepit, training is inadequate and the conscripts, increasingly, are society's rejects.
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9. Serb light cavalry and Serbian Militia conscripts also took part in the coalition.
10. At the beginning of 1942 these conscripts were released, but there were still not enough men.
11. Many conscripts - they make up 65 percent of the armed forces - receive only the most basic training.
12. It featured a Soviet invasion of North America with tanks, conscripts, large airships, and psychically dominated anti-ship giant squid.
13. The plot unfolds mostly on board of the prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
14. Within some intakes of Nationalist conscripts, there was a death rate of 90% from disease, starvation or violence before they commenced training.
15. Most of Belarus's service members are conscripts, who serve for 12 months if they have higher education or 18 months if they do not.
16. When entering the Edo period, the ashigaru's position was fixed and the use of conscripts was abandoned for over two hundred years in Japan.
17. After 1943, 10% of Welsh conscripts aged 18 were sent to work in the coal mines, where there were labour shortages; they became known as Bevin Boys.
18. With no aid forthcoming from Japan, Yamada attempted to organize large numbers of poorly trained conscripts and volunteers into eight new infantry divisions and seven new infantry brigades.
19. As the war progressed, weapons and ammunition, not to mention training grounds, became rarer, the FANK was unable to train in-country their new recruits, leaving it an army of raw conscripts and demoralized veterans.
20. “At present, the military Commissariats of the district have studied more than 100 thousand documents of conscripts received from medical and educational organizations, law enforcement agencies, characterizing the level of education, professional and moral-business qualities of children.
21. The origin of this problem is often attributed to the change in conscription term brought about by the law of October 12, 1967, causing two different groups of conscripts to be simultaneously present in the army: those who were drafted for 3-year service and those only for 2-year service.