What is "enlistment"

Usage examples of "enlistment".

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

I heard it said to the officer, who is your greatest creditor, that the four Louis enlistment money would be taken into account, and that the duke would be glad to get hold of such a fine man.

Great Britain, we have also secured great principles in favor of neutrality in the future, making it easier, instead of harder, for nations to repress the sympathies, the passions and the enlistments of their people, and to keep, during the pendency of war, the action of a neutral State within and subject to the dictates of duty and of law.

Strongly opposed to the existing policy of short-term enlistments, Adams declared himself adamantly in favor of a regular army.

GOVERNOR ANDREW, Boston: The President directs that the militia be relieved, and the enlistments made for three years, or during the war.

September did Philippus roar in the House while both Catulus and Lepidus, their enlistments filled, bent their energies to training and refining their armies.

Booty and ransom were not just a bonus, but a necessity to take the place of arrears in pay and to induce enlistment.

And he'd been so drunk on his enlistment bonus all he remembered was waking up in her bed with her father whaling away at them with his dogwhip, he'd had to run barearse naked half a klick through the snow before he lost him.

He 'was not unaccustomed to command, for quick upon the heels of his impulsive enlistment in the American Expeditionary Force in 1917, he had become a sergeant, and in France had won a battlefield commission, demobilizing as a captain.

There is no indication, for example, that they are demobilizing their conscripts who are at the end of their enlistment periods, nor any evidence of preparations for the new 'class' of conscripts that should have begun to arrive several days ago.

A master forger, he specialized in passports, birth certificates, and other documents of identification, sometimes creating elaborately backstopped legends needed to convince authorities and enlistment officers that you were someone other than who you really were.

Before the third term of his enlistment had expired, the battle of Bad Axe was fought, which put an end to the war.

Cane and Farley were from the same town somewhere in South Jersey and had enlisted together under the buddy system which guaranteed that the men would stay together during their enlistment.

He had never taken leave back to Sol One: there was a serious question, Legal Affairs had warned him from the beginning of his enlistment, whether once he came onto Sol Station where lawyers could get to him with papers, he could escape a civil process being served.

Her files were edited so that her enlistment in Fleet Intelligence had been excised and a false employment record with the Tau Ceti medical center inserted.