• Expect more union trouble after the unveiling, on July 7th, of the second stage of a five-year plan, also inherited from the right, to turn France's army into a volunteer, professional force, cutting numbers by a third within four years.

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  • In the Victorian age, it took a small army of volunteer readers twenty years to amass the 3.5 million citation slips illustrating the usage of all the words in the English vocabulary that were used to prepare the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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  • Before he became the youngest ever President of the United States, Roosevelt enjoyed a promising political career as a state assemblyman and the New York City police commissioner before decamping to the military, where he served as a Naval Secretary for a year and organized the volunteer army the Rough Riders who fought in Cuba.

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  • On April 17th, 50 members of a rogue paramilitary force, claiming to represent a volunteer militia that has occupied an abandoned army barracks, disrupted parliament and forced it out of session.

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  • However, some Russian army officers want to organize a volunteer force to defend the Serbs.

    CNN: support sign

  • Our second demonstration was to aim our botnet at a willing volunteer site, to see just how large an army you need to take the site down.

    BBC: Gaining access to a hacker's world

  • This part of Dora is now controlled by the U.S. Army along with Iraqi security forces and a local volunteer force.

    NPR: Refugees Returning to Iraq Find Homes Occupied

  • In March 2003, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clint Douglas, a former Peace Corps volunteer, was deployed to Afghanistan with the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Illinois National Guard, for more than six months.

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  • Readers should remember that it is the UN member states that opt not to have a standing UN army, forcing the organization to rely on 'volunteer' Troop Contributing Countries, who are paid by the UN for their efforts.

    BBC: What You've Said

  • There is some confusion among Sadrist clerics on whether the army will actually be an armed militia, or just a new name for the volunteer cadres who have been carrying out social and religious work over the past three months (as well as, reportedly, smashing up shops selling alcohol and streetfighting with rival factions).

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