national service
Example Sentences
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They can become instruments of the state and be called upon to perform national service, as investors saw during the 2008 financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Other European countries have looked to national service in response to the threat from Russia, with France, Germany and Belgium introducing schemes this year.
From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025
Some of Europe's biggest Nato members are moving to strengthen their professional armies through voluntary national service schemes.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
During the year ended in September 2023, nearly 28% of retirement-age individuals formally volunteered through an organization, estimates AmeriCorps, the government agency for national service and volunteerism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Older in years, long senior to Mr. Seward in the national service, he apparently could not endure to see himself displaced by a more brilliant and more capable leader.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
