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Historically, rulers liked censuses, because they enable them to conscript and tax their people.
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Colleges eager to conscript Franklin could offer Schmitz a coaching job a recruiting strategy that is not unprecedented in cases involving a huge star.
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And I know it can seem that my desire for you to succeed me sounds like an attempt to conscript you into forced family service.
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Appearing Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" and Monday on CNN, Rangel said he intends to introduce legislation early next year that would require the government to conscript young American men for military service.
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Many Israelis have come to resent the need for their conscript soldiers to risk their lives defending tiny and isolated settlements.
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Another former protester chafes that soon he will have to serve, as a conscript, the government he loathes.
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Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.
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At the very least, over time, the cumulative effect of having the conscript-based Turkish army obliged to fill its ranks with products of an increasingly Islamist-dominated educational system cannot be positive for either the Europeans or the Free World beyond.
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Iraq's conscript regular army, expected by many to fold quickly and easily, instead has displayed considerable resistance.
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Launched in a post-conscript age, it can be seen as a return to the historical condition that preceded total war.
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Most are run, heroically, by the passionately committed, usually with a direct connection to the cause for example, the mother of a maimed conscript or of a handicapped child.
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Compared with the immobile, conscript armies that many European states are still fielding, British forces can make a reasonable claim to be leaner, meaner and more modern.
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