military exemption

Few members are aware that the church has official names used for church business, including seeking military exemptions.

Although he had received a military exemption owing to his father's failing health, he wanted to serve in combat missions.

Throughout history, settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.

When they learned that the military exemption now no longer applied to Russia's Asiatic possessions, a disagreement arose among the group.

Mennonite immigrants were led to Canada by the promise from the Canadian Government of military exemption.

Ji ultimately earned his Bronze Medal and military exemption for obtaining a medal.

Mennonite leaders sent delegations to Saint Petersburg for three successive years, but failed to retain the military exemption they so valued.

The Continental Congress encouraged "the making of salt" and in 1777 New Jersey granted military exemptions to salt workers.

Perhaps one of MCC's more controversial activities is in advocating military exemption or alternative service for conscientious objectors in times of war.

Russian government officials invited those Mennonites living in Prussia to come farm the Ukrainian steppes in exchange for religious freedom and military exemption.

Frederick William II of Prussia ascended the throne in 1786 and imposed heavy fees on the Mennonites in exchange for continued military exemption.

Spokesmen for both countries said last week that special arrangements or military exemptions would enable their elite athletes to continue training and to compete without having to serve in the armed forces.

He also asked to eliminate military exemptions for those who ran the Dionysian festivals in Athens, as it was demoralizing for the men who wished to serve their country:

Investigators in Padua, Milan and Rome have unraveled a web of corruption that ranges from inflated procurement contracts to kickbacks on expense accounts to bribes for military exemptions.

Jin received a military exemption for winning the gold medal, along with the fellow gold medalists Park Chan-Ho, Seo Jae-Weong and Kim Byung-Hyun.

Military exemptions allow to evaluate the legal position of mercenary soldiers, functioning of legal norms of a temporary character and the interrelations between the statutory law and customary law in Poland.

Initially it seemed likely that Cardus would join him there as his secretary, but Cardus's military exemption was under review; the uncertainty of his position ended the possibility of a post at Eton.

Funding: The common schools were funded from a combination of revenue earned from the sixteenth sections lands, and excise tax on alcohol, military exemption fees and public and private donations specifically designed for public education.

On February 1, 2005, the ECHR ruled that two of the cases dealing with military exemption were admissible as possible violations of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding freedom of religion and discrimination.

"In 1793 Martin Kauffman, in the name of the 'Separatist Independent Baptist Church,' petitioned the government of Virginia for military exemption for his people similar to that accorded the Mennonites and Quakers."

Alarmed at the possibility of losing control of their schools and military exemption, a delegation of Mennonite leaders, including Jacob Buller, a minister of the Alexanderwohl congregation, visited North America in 1873 to investigate resettlement possibilities.

While in the third year of his studies and having passed the exams of the second semester Georgakis found himself in the difficult position of having his military exemption rescinded by the junta as well as his monthly stipend that he received from his family.

By the summer of 1917, as Allied fortunes in the war stagnated, Heseltine's military exemption came under review; to forestall the possibility of conscription, in August 1917 he moved to Ireland, taking Puma, with whom he had decided he was, after all, in love.

On January 30, 2002 airport authorities refused to allow Aladin to board a plane to Uganda to study at St. Paul Theology Seminary, although he had received his visas and military exemption; the authorities reportedly told him that he was an apostate abandoning Islam.