conscientious objector

conscientious objector

A person who refuses to serve in the military due to religious or ethical beliefs running contrary to violence or war. My great-grandfather was imprisoned for refusing to fight in the first World War as a conscientious objector.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • strive against
  • strive against (something)
  • true as God
  • true as Bob
  • a/(one's) place of business
  • place of business
  • stake a claim
  • stake a claim to
  • stake out (one's) claim
  • stake out a claim
References in periodicals archive
United States when it held the appellant, who specifically characterized his belief as non-religious, qualified for conscientious objector status within the same statutory exemption of "religious training and belief." (45) Justice Harlan characterized the opinion as a "remarkable feat of judicial surgery to remove ...
Reclaiming the in-service conscientious objection program: proposals for creating a meaningful limitation to the claim of conscientious objection
"the conscientious objectors did not deserve to be fed by the State
"Canada's First Martyr": The Suspicious Death of David Wells, Winnipeg's First-World-War Pentecostal Conscientious Objector
In 2007, Korea was presented with specific measures to adopt an alternative military program for conscientious objectors with five relevant legislative bills.
Decision on objectors near, says Constitutional Court
Despite that, throughout the short history of the Israeli state, people have either refused to execute certain missions (selective conscientious objectors) or refused to be recruited.
Convicts and Heroes: Wittgenstenian Afterthoughts on Uri Barabash's In Clean Conscience and Double Alpha
"Many conscientious objectors, such as Quakers, were given non-combatant service roles doing things like working on ambulances.
Moving and surprising stories of First World War conscientious objectors
"So why are these Conscientious Objectors with the jitterbug complex allowed to go out, drink and publicly flaunt their draft status in front of hundreds of people who have Dear Ones in the uniform of these United States," he thundered.
Prisoners of peace
For example, while all actors on the taxonomy might suffer consequences for their actions (economic, social, or political), the absolutist conscientious objector to military service and the most radical homeschoolers have the potential to suffer extreme economic sanctions and/or imprisonment.
Homeschooling as an act of conscientious objection
Conscientious objector Charles Jehnzen described the contempt as "pathetic." His wife couldn't find work after "somebody found out she was a wife of a Conchie," he said.
The pacifist division
His application to be registered as a Conscientious Objector was backed by letters, including one from a councillor, who wrote: "Mr Hannan is a man of irreproachable character and high moral convictions.
A different kind of courage; FAMILIES OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS SAY THEY ALSO PAID A PRICE FOR THEIR BELIEFS; MSP Time to remember heroes of peace army
He is refused official recognition as a conscientious objector and is told he either has to fight or go to prison.
Mitchelhill, Barbara: Run Rabbit Run
For the most part the conscientious objector was viewed as "unintelligent unimaginative, and obdurate" (148).
Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War
A conscientious objector, Birky didn't believe in killing another human being, but he did believe in serving his country.
In good conscience: during World War II, thousands of conscientious objectors worked to restore and preserve our national parks and other federal lands
For example, the narrative of 'war enthusiasm', which the author describes and dissects as an idealised image of public opinion in 1914 and the success of voluntary recruiting, the limits of which are clearly shown in the need for conscription in 1916 (which in turn created the legal category of conscientious objector to military service, or to combatant service).
A NEW LOOK AT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN THE GREAT WAR
Army to deny Muslim soldier, Naser Abdo's request for conscientious objector status, accusing him of 'treason' and urging the military to punish him to the full extent of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Islamic group wants US Muslim soldier quitting over Afghan war-God mismatch punished
The Court-Martial of Charlie Newell a novel by Massachusetts lawyer Gerard Shirar is a compelling read about a young black man's battle against army bureaucracy racial and religious prejudice and societal indifference during the tail end of the "war to end all wars." The story according to Shirar is a fictional account based on a 1918 court-martial of a conscientious objector at Fort Caswell in North Carolina.
The Court-Martial of Charlie Newell