enlistment
Example Sentences
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It also lowers enlistment quotas and facilitates exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men who study in religious seminaries known as yeshivas.
From Barron's
Among the American troops, there were mutinies and desertions and soldiers simply going home when their enlistment was up.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2022, it had more than twice the per capita military enlistment rate of the highest U.S. state, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Acknowledge young Henry Kissinger’s physical courage, his enlistment as a young refugee in the American army, his willingness to risk his life in the battle to liberate Europe from Hitler.
From Salon
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863—declaring enslaved people in the rebellious states “forever free” and opening the Union Army to black enlistment—Douglass and other skeptics were electrified.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
