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Others took the opposite path and joined or were conscripted into Islamic State.

"Those who are conscripted, they must tear them away from their mother's breast!" he exclaims.

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Harbaugh, a junior high coach, was conscripted to work with the varsity team, and sometimes that was little more than babysitting.

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The death of a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian in Ukraine, weeks after he was conscripted into the Ukrainian army, has provoked a furious row between the Hungarian government and authorities in Kyiv.

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But experts say many of these volunteers are conscripted by force.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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