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...Even if Russia did draft more men, sheer numbers would not be sufficient to compensate for their lack of training, Luzin said....
...But this March, after claiming that the pandemic had boosted support for self-governance, she published a draft bill for another independence referendum....
...Sergeant Wopke The Dutch have revived their complaints against Brussels over its policing of Italy's draft budget....
...March 8 A police officer, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who visited Mr Skripal’s house, also falls critically ill. He takes two weeks to recover....
...The army is courting Britain’s biggest businesses as recruiting sergeants, as it steps up plans to draft thousands more reservists into its ranks by 2020....
...He volunteered for the draft aged 21. Fifty-eight thousand names on a black wall in Washington attest to the risk he took for his country....
...A transitional crisis over numbers could perhaps have been met by a selective draft, but this was considered politically impossible because of its unfairness....
...By the end of the war, a universal military draft had pushed that number closer to 3.7m. The US lost 116,516 service members in the fighting, roughly twice as many as were killed in the Vietnam war....
...Inspector Ken MacKaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Sergeant Chris Jones had been told they would face no action for misconduct over press statements they made after a meeting with Andrew Mitchell...
...When sent to Paris to write an article on the French finance ministry, “‘you just haven’t captured the mystique of the place’ was his reaction to my first draft. Three rewrites had to follow.”...
...“In almost all cases of serious malpractice in the workplace there are brave and ethical people who want to speak out,” said Carol Sergeant incoming chairman of the whistle-blowing charity Public Concern...
...Sergeant Plod was even questioning a Mr Blair about it the other day. I bet only deceased Indian steel magnates and defrocked colonial media moguls are eventually implicated....
...By the time, for example, that Paul McCartney had turned 25, it could be argued his greatest achievements were already behind him: “Eleanor Rigby”, “Penny Lane”, the recording of Sergeant Pepper....
...But it is still all but inconceivable that the administration would re-introduce the draft – or even sharply raise taxes on petrol – to help win that struggle....
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