system of conscription
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsystemandconscription
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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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conscription
noun[U]
uk/kənˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/kənˈskrɪp.ʃən/
the act or process of forcing people by law to join the ...
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(Definition ofsystemandconscriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The original levee en masse was asystemofconscriptionenforced from above, but it was presented as a spontaneous expression of popular will.
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By the 1940s the time was ripe for a repeat attempt at a nationalsystemofconscription.
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That is what we have not got now; and that is what this mixedsystemofconscriptionwill never give us.
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We have no intention of returning to the wastefulsystemofconscriptionif we can possibly avoid it.
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There has been a further attack from certain quarters on the wholesystemofconscription.
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In most of those countries there is nosystemofconscription.
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We could get a similar number now if an appeal were made for volunteers, in addition to working thesystemofconscription.
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The oldsystemofconscriptionwas not only fair but appeared to be fair.
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That is what we are getting today under oursystemofconscription.
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One of the great arguments for oursystemofconscriptionwas that we must have masses of reservists.
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Why can we not introduce asystemofconscriptionfor apprenticeship as some solution to our rising unemployment problem?
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He represented this country as consisting of peace-making angels, and he told us that the cause of the great loss of human life was thesystemofconscription.
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Thesystemofconscriptionhas virtually collapsed.
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The third way in which we could get the number of men we need is by asystemofconscription, which is much the most democratic of those three methods.
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Member groups who disagreed with this policy or the cooperation required with asystemofconscriptionbegan to withdraw from the organization.
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The draft, as asystemofconscriptionwhich threatened lower class registrants and middle class registrants alike, drove much of the protest after 1965.
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