If youdescribesoldiersascannonfodder, youmeanthat they are notconsideredimportantbytheirofficersand aresentintowarwithouttheirleadersworryingif theydie.
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I would not have them shot.' Much has been made of a statement that I declared that men were fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
The common people—the cannon fodder, the men who would die, and the women who would weep: they should be given something more than the privilege of either cheering platform patriots or being summoned for interrupting public meetings.
Wasn't he a bigger asset to America as an alive engineer, an expert in his work, than as mere cannon fodder, one of thousands to be shot into junk in a morning's "activity"—just one of them?
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I come from the generation born within five years of the first world war; we were just old enough to becannonfodderalmost throughout the second world war.
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They are thecannonfodderfor the next war.
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It is all very well to becannonfodder.
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They treat nurses ascannonfodderand do not recognise their skills with proper wages.
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It is said that people, quite properly, do not desire their children to be used ascannonfodder.
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It is a battlefield on which building workers are thecannonfodderfor the employers' profit system.
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I am glad that this afternoon we have heard nothing of the gibe that this scheme is for the production ofcannonfodder.
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In other words, the consumer has becomecannonfodderfor the manufacturers and the distributors.
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However, the majority were effectivelycannonfodderfor a non-existent enemy.
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This is the country that cannot afford sufficient to maintain the physical efficiency ofcannonfodderfor the next war.
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It does not dismiss them as mere visitors to be "milked"or to be treated as"cannonfodder".
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With the control of raw materials may go control of the human raw material—thecannonfodder.
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Does their righteous hatred of war make women resist the production of "cannonfodder"?
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They will only getcannonfodderto be used at the outbreak of war.
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Children are being merely used ascannonfodderfor that particular profession.
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