The conscientious objector Almost as quickly as Ali had arrived, his World Boxing Association heavyweight title was gone, revoked after he claimed conscientious objector status in refusing the draft.
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In fact, Ali asked to serve as a conscientious objector.
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Bernie Sanders applied for conscientious objector status during the same period.
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"If you were a conscientious objector, I'd admire that," he said.
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This way, the conscientious objector doesn't necessarily limit access to care.
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He was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.
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The court extended conscientious objector protections to those lacking a religious objection.
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The doctor on shift—a conscientious objector—had decided not to assist her.
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In other words, the accommodation policy simply asks the conscientious objector to object.
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Ousset, 43, considered herself a conscientious objector, and had never assisted in an abortion.
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The Trump administration's move is a shift back to those earlier "conscientious objector" protections.
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On April 28, 1967, Ali refused to be drafted and requested conscientious-objector status.
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Being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War was an easy choice for me.
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He also famously refused to enter the Vietnam War in 1967 as a conscientious objector.
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Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), the first conscientious objector to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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A conscientious objector, he worked as a hospital orderly to satisfy his National Service requirement.
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If my opposition to the war was sincere, I should have become a conscientious objector.
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Fearing prison as a draft resister, he applied for, but was denied, a conscientious objector exemption.
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It's not like he walked away and said, 'I'm a conscientious objector to the president's agenda.
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"I like to compare this to conscientious objector status," said Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Calif.
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In April 1967, he refused to report for induction into the military and requested conscientious-objector status.
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I am a conscientious objector to the USA, it's policies, lies, corruption, nationalism, racism, and deep misogyny.
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In April 1967, as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army.
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During World War II, he was jailed for refusing to register for the draft as a conscientious objector.
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In the green room, Parker mentioned that he has become "something of a conscientious objector" on social media.
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On June 2500, 22005, it unanimously reversed a lower court decision and granted Ali his conscientious-objector status.
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Ali refused to be drafted and applied to be classified as a conscientious objector, citing his religious beliefs.
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During World War II, Dr. Zwingle, a conscientious objector, was director of operations of the United Service Organization.
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What he's said: Parker told Axios he considers himself "something of a conscientious objector" to the social network.
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Ali argued that as a black Muslim he was a conscientious objector and should be exempted from the draft.
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Patients may have no other health-care options, as the conscientious objector may be the only provider for miles.
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The next Monday he told his commanding officer that he refused to fly because he was a conscientious objector.
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It is possible to be a conscientious objector to the whole laborious, stress-inducing, health-endangering process, of course.
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It is possible to be a conscientious objector to the whole laborious, stress-inducing, health-endangering process, of course.
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"After Ota Benga" (2017), also part of the Conscientious Objector series, is one of two installation pieces in the show.
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There's Frank Showler, a Canadian and conscientious objector during World War Two who later helped Vietnam resisters fleeing to Canada.
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A devout Seventh Day Adventist and conscientious objector, Doss had enlisted as a medic and refused to carry a rifle.
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"I drew myself," wrote Mr. Holtom, a World War II conscientious objector who was alarmed by the nuclear arms race.
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While Sanders has said he is not currently a pacifist, he did seek conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War.
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Under this new standard, a conscientious objector may claim the status based only on moral objections, rather than religious beliefs.
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Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who is running for President as a Democrat, applied to be a conscientious objector during Vietnam.
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The Hiroshima House gets its name and inspiration from Floyd Schmoe, a Quaker pacifist who was a conscientious objector during WWII.
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"My clients would love to be a conscientious objector, but the government insists that they be a conscientious collaborator," he said.
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Months after the defeat, Ali got a major victory outside the ring when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conscientious objector claim.
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Upon notification of his status, Ali declared himself a conscientious objector, and that he would not serve because of his religious beliefs.
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It was like I'm not gonna go into Vietnam and get killed I'm gonna be a conscientious objector and come to Canada.
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Around the time his parents divorced, he proclaimed himself a "progressive pacifist" and conscientious objector and moved to a liberal Christian commune.
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The Supreme Court ruling overturned the conviction of a conscientious objector who was a Jehovah's Witness—a member of a pacifist religious group.
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Martin was of the right age to be drafted into the Vietnam War, but he applied for and quickly received conscientious objector status.
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Should you disapprove of the government and its actions, you are not allowed, as a kind of conscientious objector, to simply opt out.
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But it's not enough for Phillips to be a conscientious objector; he must also be innocent of the ethical crime he ostensibly committed.
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There's nothing wrong with indulging in a little Hallmark-fueled, candy-filled romance — but there's nothing wrong with being a conscientious objector, either.
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He credits experiences in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood — the epicenter of the hippie movement — for his eventual decision to seek conscientious objector status.
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He'll soon appear in Steven Soderbergh's "The Laundromat," about the Panama Papers, and Terrence Malick's "Radegund," about the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter.
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While Doss viewed himself not as a conscientious objector, but a conscientious cooperator, his fellow infantrymen and superiors did not see it that way.
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Although he was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he is not the only one to have received it.
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Born in 1922, he spent World War II as a conscientious objector in the Civilian Public Service before he made his way to academia.
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In my final year, my dorm roommate, who had become my partner, registered with the draft board as a conscientious objector, a peace-believer.
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The number of appointments could increase if the initial doctor is a conscientious objector, meaning the woman must find another doctor to refer them.
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Yet such was the mission of Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist, who was drafted in 1942 and joined the military as a conscientious objector.
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Jägerstätter, a husband and father who lived in a lovely agrarian mountain village called St. Radegund, was a conscientious objector to the Third Reich.
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A pacifist, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was consigned for about a year to the psychiatric ward of a Boston naval hospital.
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"He was the first conscientious objector to be given the Medal of Honor," Gibson explained in an interview at the Sydney Film Festival in June.
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Born in September 85033, LaRouche was a conscientious objector to World War II, and served instead as a medic in Burma, according to the Post.
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But Paul was also a Mennonite; as a conscientious objector, he spent the Second World War at a Civilian Public Service camp in Puerto Rico.
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The justices, reversing a lower court, gave him the conscientious-objector status he had sought after a draft board reclassified him available for military service.
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Mr. Ali had fought his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1971 granted him the conscientious-objector status he had sought.
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During the Korean War, rather than declaring himself a conscientious objector, Dr. Sharp refused to cooperate with his draft board because he opposed conscription altogether.
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He knew there would be consequences and he faced them on principle, seeking exemptions first as a conscientious objector and then because he was a minister.
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In one of hip-hop's most populist periods, he is a divider — a loyalist to out-of-fashion values and a conscientious objector to dominant trends.
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With "Hacksaw" (about Desmond T. Doss, a World War II conscientious objector who served in battle without weapons), there were so many bloody limbs and tendons.
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Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist and conscientious objector who enlisted in WWII as a medic and refused to carry a rifle.
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" Sean Parker, who was Facebook's first president, seemed to echo Rosenstein's comments at an Axios event last month where he called himself "something of a conscientious objector.
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The bureau was also interested in any developments on the possibility that Ali would be drafted into the Army and whether he would seek conscientious-objector status.
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The government failed to specify why Ali's application to be considered a conscientious objector was denied, and the court ruled that, as a result, his conviction wasn't valid.
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Despite Gibson's obvious awfulness, Hacksaw Ridge is a very fine film, largely due to Garfield's pure-hearted portrayal of conscientious objector and lifesaving WWII medic Desmond T. Doss.
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In an interview with Axios's Mike Allen, Parker said that he'd become a "conscientious objector" on social media, which he said had been built to addict us all.
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Having been raised a Quaker, he applied for conscientious objector status and ended up doing alternative service teaching chronically ill patients at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
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The films tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who saved 75 men in one of the bloodiest battles of WWII without even touching a gun.
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That hero, Desmond Doss, is inscribed in the history books as something of a paradox: a conscientious objector who was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in combat.
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Take Maikel Nabil, an Egyptian human rights activist, award-winning blogger and conscientious objector to compulsory military service whose trial and incarceration in Egypt was condemned by U.S. authorities.
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It's set during World War II, but our Austrian protagonist Franz Jägerstätter, based on a real-life conscientious objector, does not save Jews from Nazis or give rousing speeches.
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The court overturned Ali's conviction in an 8-0 ruling, saying the U.S. government had failed to properly specify why Ali's application to be a conscientious objector had been denied.
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He had opted out of military service as a conscientious objector, and was completing a community-service requirement doing elder care and answering phones for a social-services help line.
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When he became a conscientious objector in 1967, we moved to New York, so he could fund-raise for the theater, and I went to Columbia's School of the Arts.
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There are a few options: You can get pregnant, stay in education indefinitely, or become a conscientious objector—although many of these options still involve a period of enforced community service.
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Conway, who filed for conscientious-objector status during the Vietnam War, finds the lionization of the character uncomfortable, particularly by the American soldiers fighting ISIS abroad who adopted the character's symbol.
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The five Justices had agreed with the new Solicitor General, Erwin Griswold, that Ali, who had been stripped of the title even before his conviction, was not really a conscientious objector.
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This conscientious objector, a cooperative of 11 female artisans working in a former stationery shop from the 19th century, specializes instead in high-end design objects, jewelry and billowy women's wear.
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Instead, he is a conscientious objector — to the shadow cast by his old life, to the comparisons to his old peers, to the gleam of modern pop, to all of it.
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Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian farmer who became a conscientious objector during World War II and refused to swear the oath of loyalty to Hitler; he was ultimately executed by the Nazis.
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The film tells the true story of the religiously motivated conscientious objector Desmond Doss's battlefield heroism, and it stands out in this year's field for its unironic portrayal of individual religious conviction.
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The "conscientious objector" clause has led to horrific situations, Agatone said: Women are forced to undergo biased counseling, and made to wait unnecessarily long periods between appointments to discourage them from terminating pregnancies.
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In "Bury Me Here," The Walking Dead did something it's been threatening to do ever since its very first season: It destroyed the remaining pacifism of its sole hold-out conscientious objector, Morgan.
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"I worried that the violent atmosphere would turn me into a violent person, someone who is happy to beat other people," says Lee Yong-suk, a conscientious objector who now runs a pacifist NGO.
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Her doctor's refusal — she said she was a conscientious objector to Italy's law that makes abortion legal up to 90 days — set off a desperate scramble to find a doctor who would help her.
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Founding Facebook president Sean Parker told Mike Allen yesterday that he has become "something of a conscientious objector" to social media, joining the small group of insider voices exposing and criticizing Silicon Valley's operations.
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After enduring ridicule for his beliefs, which included observing the Sabbath, Mr. Doss was given conscientious objector status and served as an unarmed medic in multiple battles, including the gruesome Okinawa siege in 1945.
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The film stars Andrew Garfield as Doss falling in love with a nurse and signing up for the army to be a medic despite being a conscientious objector due to his devout Christian beliefs.
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In 1954 he registered as a conscientious objector and did two years' worth of alternative military service before enrolling in a course in design and illustration at the Central School of Art in London.
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The movie stars Andrew Garfield as real-life war hero and conscientious objector Desmond Doss, who saved 75 people during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Hacksaw Ridge is supposed to be fantastic.
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"After Harold Rosenberg (ghosts)" (2015), part of the Conscientious Objector to Formalism series, reproduces the famous image as a negative and places Rosenberg's line, "Apparently, aesthetics can function as a tool of racism," above them.
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Meanwhile, Hacksaw Ridge, a bloody but inspirational R-rated war drama about a conscientious objector who becomes a World War II war hero, did 9 percent better with better with Trump voters than Clinton voters.
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In its decision, the court called the Justice Department "simply wrong as a matter of law" to not consider Ali's argument that he was a conscientious objector based on his religious beliefs and sincerely held views.
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Surprise: Mel Gibson, best director Mr. Gibson is pushing ever further down the road from disgrace to Hollywood redemption with the accolades for "Hacksaw Ridge," about a World War II corporal who is a conscientious objector.
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"If you could be a conscientious objector and not fight in a war then you should be able to hold to your convictions in something as simple as this when it is not hurting anyone," Sewell said.
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Even as courts were striking down blasphemy laws and recognizing the rights of nontheists to conscientious-objector status, legislators around the country were trying to promote Christianity in a way that did not violate the establishment clause.
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In the final scene, a dramatic reveal shows the birth of a conscientious objector: Zyrick takes the field of his exhibition game, but, in a provocative act of defiance, his jersey is emblazoned with a protest symbol.
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What he did there is easily Googled (and is the subject of Terry L. Benedict's documentary "The Conscientious Objector"), but I won't go too far in spoiling a tale that Mr. Gibson retells with vigor and suspense.
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He tells you that, since you are a genuine conscientious objector, you won't be compelled to serve in active combat and likely will end up in alternative service as a hospital orderly or with some innocuous role.
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"Hacksaw Ridge" emphasizes the outsider status of its hero, a conscientious objector serving in the American military during World War II, to demonstrate how deep his commitment to his principles was in the face of extreme pressure.
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As the granddaughter of both a conscientious objector and a Women's Army Corps (WAC) veteran, I have some mixed feelings about opening the draft: some anti-war pacifism, but also deep respect for those who serve our country.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 (Reuters) - "Hacksaw Ridge", the true story of the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor, marks the directorial return of actor Mel Gibson a decade after his last stint behind the camera.
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Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of PFC Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield in full aw-shucks mode), the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, given in recognition of his service in the Battle of Okinawa.
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"God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains," he said at an Axios event in Philadelphia, noting that he has become a "conscientious objector" on social media, even though he still maintains a presence on Twitter and Facebook.
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A month later would come the main event: the Supreme Court hearing that would result in the justices ruling in favor of Ali, finding that a lower court gave no reason for refusing to grant the Muslim convert conscientious objector status.
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He was sufficiently self-aware that, come the outbreak of war in 1939, he seriously considered registering as a conscientious objector, but he ended up compromising by becoming an agricultural labourer instead and helping to supply food to wartime Britain.
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A onetime agnostic, Mr. Cromartie (pronounced CRO-mar-tee) embraced Christianity as a teenage conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and then became an acolyte of Charles W. Colson, the Nixon administration special counsel who was convicted in the Watergate scandal.
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The soldier was denied conscientious objector status because, as a Catholic, his opposition to the Vietnam War was specific to that conflict, as an unjust war; soldiers belonging to other religions that preached complete pacifism had been excused from military service.
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These, together with acts of opposition — registering as a conscientious objector, going to jail, fleeing to Canada — meant that only about 40 of my classmates — out of about 1,200 in our freshman class — served in Vietnam, and only two were killed.
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Andrew Garfield earned an Oscar nod as Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who refused to carry a gun but was awarded the Medal of Honor as an Army medic in the Battle of Okinawa in Mel Gibson's best-picture contender.
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The first is Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," about Desmond T. Doss, a real-life World War II hero, a Seventh-day Adventist and conscientious objector who refused to carry weaponry; the part has landed Mr. Garfield his second Golden Globe nomination.
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Raised as a Quaker, he said he registered as a conscientious objector during World War II. Mr. Venturi arrived at Princeton in 1944, when modernism had taken root at other architecture schools, particularly Harvard's, then led by the Bauhaus master Walter Gropius.
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A conscientious-objector Republican can bring up a bill to say, build a wall along the Mexican border, let the Democrats block it, and then either give up on the bill or weaken it until it is a fraction of its original form.
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The symbol was not his first activist involvement; Holtom was a conscientious objector in World War II. And the design caught on quickly, with the ND movement creating ceramic buttons emblazoned with the symbol, some of which made it to the United States.
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Mr. Fiore declared himself a conscientious objector during World War II, as did two of his four brothers, and was assigned to camps in California, Colorado and New Hampshire, fighting forest fires and rescuing lost or injured skiers, Ms. La Porta said.
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One of the most divisive movies here is Terrence Malick's "A Hidden Life," which is based on the story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), a conscientious objector who was executed by the Nazis in 1943 and later beatified by the Catholic Church.
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The same ACLU that criticized the HHS's proposed rule last week because it purports to enforce protections for those who have both religious and moral objections to certain medical procedures strongly supported expanding conscientious objector status on nearly identical grounds back in 1965.
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"I'm kind of a conscientious objector to the notice and consent model," said Laura Jehl, partner in the privacy and data protection practice at law firm BakerHostetler, referring to the GDPR framework that led to the now-ubiquitous "we've updated our privacy policy" notice.
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HACKSAW RIDGE Andrew Garfield stars in the true story of Desmond Doss, a Virginia-born conscientious objector who refused to carry a weapon in World War II but went into battle anyway and as a medic saved 75 men during the Battle of Okinawa.
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Mr. Doss, who died in 2006, became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor; he saved dozens of wounded men in Okinawa alone, carrying them one by one in the face of enemy fire and lowering them down an escarpment by rope.
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In 2018 alone, he starred in Sally Potter's comic drama "The Party"; Terrence Malick's "Radegund," about an Austrian conscientious objector; "The Tobacconist," as Sigmund Freud; "I Witness," an action drama; and "The House That Jack Built," a serial-killer drama directed by Lars von Trier.
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"A Short History" makes a decent case for "the female gaze," a cinema-studies concept to which I've long been a conscientious objector: the notion that the camera lens, which has been trained to ogle and dominate, can change, in female hands, launching a radical new aesthetic.
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Abortions are technically permitted in cases of rape and danger to the pregnant woman's health in Argentina, but in reality, obstacles such as rampant use of "conscientious objector" laws, which allow doctors and hospitals to refuse to provide these procedures, makes access even under these circumstances extremely limited.
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It wasn't exactly a shocker: He had first refused induction at the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston that spring, and refused to be inducted into the Army, saying he was a conscientious objector — "I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong," he had told reporters.
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He's a monklike and macho character, a conscientious objector who is also a brilliant military tactician, and while there is nothing wrong with putting that kind of figure into a war movie, at a certain point you do have to wonder why Edgerton and company bothered naming him Falstaff at all.
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Billed upfront as "a true story," throwing the wishy-washy "based on/inspired by" to the wind, Hacksaw Ridge stars Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector (though he'd prefer "conscientious cooperator") who refused to carry a gun into the hell that was the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
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She told him he might be a conscientious objector, or C.O. When his ship returned to San Diego in the summer of 1970, Jane met him at the dock wearing granny glasses and a madras dress and carrying the local underground newspaper announcing a meeting of the Concerned Officers Movement.
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In Ohio, for example, where all of the delegates are bound to support John Kasich -- two have notified the party that they do not intend to go to the convention now that Trump is the nominee, with one calling herself a conscientious objector and another, Ross McGregor (R-Springfield), citing a traveling conflict.
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Release Dates Unknown: So here's a fascinating story, about an American army medic (played by Andrew Garfield) who served during World War II as a conscientious objector, yet still received the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 75 Americans during the battle of Okinawa … without ever picking up a weapon.
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"At an Axios event on Wednesday, Parker reportedly described as himself becoming "something of a conscientious objector" to social media off-camera before sharing some interesting nuggets about Facebook and immortality onstage:When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, "I'm not on social media.
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He slowed as a fighter: allowed back in the ring in 1970, his status as a conscientious objector now established, his reflexes were duller and his body forced to absorb blows he could have evaded in his prime; Frazier's defeat of him over 15 rounds the next year was the worst battering of his life.
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But two months earlier, on April 19743, 21974, according to "The Brethren," a book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, the Supreme Court had decided by a vote of 21978 to 215 that Ali was not a conscientious objector, that he should serve the five-year prison term to which he had been sentenced in 1967 for draft evasion.
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During a pediatric internship at Harlem Hospital, she became involved in politics and the civil rights movement, spurred on in part by her husband, who was a conscientious objector during World War II. Along with other young doctors, she advocated for better medical care for poor people and joined national and international movements for peace and social justice.
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There is the Jasper Johns who spoke in the 1970s about wanting to sell a painting for $1 million, a figure then unheard-of for a living artist (in 2014, a flag painting sold for $36 million at a Sotheby's auction) and the Jasper Johns who avoids any knowledge of the contemporary art world like a conscientious objector.
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And he stood up against the Vietnam War, refusing to be drafted in 19603 on religious grounds as a conscientious objector — a decision that would cost him his boxing title, three-and-a-half years of his career at the peak of his powers, tens of millions of dollars in prize money and endorsements, and for many years, his popularity.
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The farmhouse, which is decorated with their work, offered an escape from London and from military service for Mr. Grant, who was a conscientious objector during World War I. Filming for each episode takes place about two weeks ahead of broadcast, and producers say, coyly, that the show is made at a fraction of the cost of other prime-time competitors.
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Mr. Snipes was a Quaker peace activist and a conscientious objector during World War II. After the war, he worked for the United Nations in Germany, helping to relocate refugees and escorting trainloads of displaced people returning from ghettos and concentration camps to their homes in Poland and Hungary through Russian lines, according to his children, Jonathan Snipes and Susan Snipes-Wells.
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A one-time hawk in the war on drugs of 20 years ago, I am now a conscientious objector and believe it's time to drop the old trappings of war language and metaphor for federal policy and response that strategically embraces new information; the disease model of addiction; and the smart data that tells us incarceration doesn't save money; solve health problems; not stem loss of life, potential and community.
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Any anti-war movement is a massive undertaking with a high risk of failure, but a clue to where we might start lies in a small study published in Foreign Policy a few months ago: It found that, by far, the Democratic presidential candidate with the most money contributed by military personnel was Bernie Sanders, a former Students for a Democratic Society peacenik and conscientious objector to the Vietnam War who has opposed many of our major military excursions since then and pledged repeatedly to cut Pentagon budgets.
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