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Example sentences for "recruited"

Lexicographically close words:
recrossed; recrosses; recrossing; recrudescence; recruit; recruiter; recruiters; recruiting; recruitment; recruits
  1. A rest of four weeks at Sib recruited the traveller’s strength, and he determined to make another effort to reach Central Arabia.

  2. The retreat under these circumstances was slow; the army had to be rested and recruited when it fell in with any accumulation of provisions; and the average progress made seems to have been not much more than ten miles a day.

  3. It was recruited from India, but was at no time very numerous.

  4. We were told that the order was recruited mainly from the intellectual class, many of them widowers.

  5. This Legion was recruited from friends of France who were not Frenchmen, but largely Americans.

  6. Marcellus, on seeing the violence with which the disease was raging, had removed his troops into the city, where their debilitated frames were recruited in houses and shade.

  7. In 1862 he recruited and commanded a regiment of cavalry, which saw much hard fighting and did valuable service.

  8. We have dealt only with the Indian Civil Service, but our intention is that there should be in all other services now recruited from England a fixed percentage of recruitment in India, increasing annually.

  9. In fact, both of them have been given distinctly to understand that as soon as the war conditions are over, permanent incumbents for these posts will be recruited at "home.

  10. That these are recruited in England, and from some of them the Indians are altogether barred.

  11. It is recruited in England and is overwhelmingly European in personnel.

  12. Indian public services competition in India from in India and in England instead persons already appointed to the of any service being recruited Provincial Civil Service.

  13. For example, it seems inconceivable to us why professional men like doctors, engineers and professors should be recruited for permanent service.

  14. As with the rest of the staff, they are recruited from all parts of the country, and some of them have served a rural apprenticeship.

  15. The shop clerks are chiefly recruited from the personnel of the sheds, while those of the monthly staff are chosen from over a wider area.

  16. We must remember, however, that in those days the armies of Europe were recruited from classes that had scarcely as yet been touched by the advance of civilisation.

  17. Recruited by conscription, this was an innovation that excited universal indignation, increased by the fact that the army was based upon a European model.

  18. The technical committees to whom the useful work of the Convention was due were recruited from the Plain.

  19. To the elements recruited from the lowest dregs of the populace are added, by way of contagion, a host of idle and indifferent persons who are simply drawn into the movement.

  20. The members of the Legislative Corps recruited themselves, and were not elected by the people.

  21. The soldiers, recruited from the lowest class of the population, did not philosophise, but they no longer obeyed.

  22. If the Assembly resisted, they sent their armed delegations thither-- that is, armed bands recruited from the scum of the populace.

  23. One can make sure of this by reading the advanced journals, whose contributors and editors are recruited chiefly from among the professors of the University.

  24. The upper legislative chamber is recruited almost exclusively by royal nomination.

  25. Diet to consent to the establishment of a standing army, recruited and supported under regulation of the Diet but controlled by the Austrian council of war.

  26. Its own ranks were to be recruited by co-optation from triple lists of candidates presented by the Tribunate, the Legislative Body, and the First Consul.

  27. Its membership is recruited almost exclusively from the rigidly conservative landowning aristocracy, so that in attitude and policy it is apt to be in no degree representative of the mass of the nation, at least of the industrial classes.

  28. The governing authority of the borough was the town council, whose members were either elected by the freemen or recruited by co-optation.

  29. In these days its membership is recruited very largely from the Deputies, so that it includes not only many men of distinction in letters and science but an unusual proportion of experienced debaters and parliamentarians.

  30. By his energies the Spaniards had been driven from the metropolis, and he immediately, with great vigor, fortified the city anew, and recruited and drilled his armies, now familiar with the weapons of European warfare.

  31. There is also a battalion of police, supplemented by Indian and Chinese constables—the former recruited among the natives of the Portuguese territory of Goa on the Bombay coast, though many of the sepoys hail from British India.

  32. Near this are the fine stone and brick barracks built for the Hong Kong Regiment—a corps raised and recruited in Northern India about ten years ago for permanent service in this Colony.

  33. Recruited among an agricultural population, inhabitants of a mountainous country, they were inured to toil and fatigue.

  34. The Fifteenth, recruited from the state at large, was mustered in July 18, detained at Fort Snelling till September 15, and then sent to Camp Meade, Pennsylvania.

  35. In addition to the five infantry regiments recruited under the calls of 1862, five minor organizations were formed, one of which, the Second Company of Minnesota sharpshooters, has been mentioned.

  36. The companies were promptly recruited by aspirants to commissions, and the organization was complete by the middle of November.

  37. The next day Mr. Crooks was sufficiently recruited in strength to be able to carry his rifle and pistols, and they made a march of seventeen miles along the borders of the plain.

  38. Many of the people ate to such excess as to render themselves sick, others were lame from their past journey; but all gradually recruited in the repose and abundance of the valley.

  39. Possibly the cardinal did not inform you that he has ordered that the regiment that has been just recruited shall bear the name of the regiment of Poitou, and has appointed you to its command.

  40. Both horses and men were recruited without the slightest reference to their fitness for cavalry work.

  41. No man walked when he could ride, and hundreds of fine horsemen, mounted on steeds of famous lineage, recruited the Confederate squadrons.

  42. Three companies, who were recruited from the district and knew the ground, were ordered to the front.

  43. One of the regiments had been recruited from the roughs of New Orleans.

  44. At the time of the combat of Front Royal the duty of orderlies was performed for General Jackson by a detachment from one of Ashby's undisciplined companies, of whom many were raw youths just recruited and never under fire.

  45. Recruited in the Valley of the Shenandoah and the western mountains, the brigade consisted of the following regiments:-- The 2nd Virginia, Colonel Allen.

  46. The regiments of Banks' army corps were recruited as a rule in the Western States; Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia furnished the majority.

  47. Numbers of trained seamen, recruited from the merchant service and the fisheries, were at once available.

  48. The Federals, recruited by fresh levies; would undoubtedly be numerically the stronger; and the Confederate equipment, despite the large captures of guns and rifles, was still deficient.

  49. Two companies of the 5th Virginia were recruited from Winchester.

  50. The numbers of the Buccaneers were quickly recruited by volunteers of English, French, and Dutch, from all parts; and both the occupations of hunting and cruising were pursued with more than usual eagerness.

  51. Pulaski’s flying squadron was recruited from these deserters.

  52. Recruited the 74th Pennsylvania regiment, one of the elite regiments in the Army of the Potomac.

  53. They (the Germans) sent us men; they recruited our armies with men; they helped to save the life of this nation.

  54. The government at Paris redoubled its energies, and recruited its powers, for the object in view.

  55. It was kept at Boulogne with depleted ranks, but ready to be recruited for a landing in England as a subordinate move, if the British should be overpowered in the Levant and compelled to divide their fleet.

  56. Behind the Consul for life stood a now purged and unified army, recruited by a system which insured its perpetuity and efficiency.

  57. At St. Helena, Napoleon declared that the failure of the expedition was clear to him from the moment of Nelson's victory; for any force which cannot be recruited must melt away and eventually surrender.

  58. She had recruited her treasury and her army by British aid, and was defiant.

  59. Such provisions could only mean either the permanent humiliation of Austria, or the resumption of hostilities whenever recruited strength would permit.

  60. Napoleon had said before that an army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

  61. It is by this very vice that the ranks of these poor daft mortals are being recruited every day.

  62. After sweeping over three hundred leagues of ground he returned, in recruited strength and new energy, to press upon Lamoricière and his garrison at Mascara with all the rigors of a winter blockade.

  63. Our horses being much recruited I altered our course to-day to N.

  64. This was the only plan that appeared to me at all feasible, and I determined to adopt it as soon as our horses were sufficiently recruited to commence their labours again.

  65. In both States men were actively recruited and enrolled to assist in attacking the capital.

  66. The navy was recruited in those days by means of pressgangs.

  67. How had she recruited the king's service, both by sea and land, through rendering desperate his loving subjects between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five!


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recruited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.