In the 1960's, the black heavyweight champion caused a furor by changing from the "slave name" Cassius Marcellus Clay to Muhammad Ali, and then refusing to accept induction into the United States military on religious grounds.

The boxing establishment prevented him for three and a half years from practicing his profession because of his refusal to accept induction, until the Supreme Court, in an 8-0 decision, changed all that.

For four years he was unsuccessful in convincing Tom Landry to accept induction.

The case resolved, on diverse but related grounds, three cases, each involving conviction for failure to accept induction into the armed forces on the part of someone who sought conscientious objector status without "belong[ing] to an orthodox religious sect".

On Jan. 20, 1969, Aller sent a three-page letter to the Spokane draft board that began, ". . . I cannot in good conscience accept induction into the Armed Forces of the United States."

In 1993, thanks in part to the efforts of Roger Staubach as an intermediary, Landry accepted induction and had a ceremony on the day of that year's Cowboys-Giants game (Landry had played and coached for the Giants).

When accepting induction into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2003, ethnomusicologist Sally Childs-Helton said, We have taken our right to be creative and to literally "play" in the best sense of that word.

Smallwood was never knighted and later accepted induction as a Companion.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe had once stated that they would not accept induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame until the Monkees were inducted.

Accepting enumerative induction as reliable for all practical purposes by its appeal to the experience at least possible, Comte claimed all knowledge-justified belief-is scientific.