Custom, however, exempts them from military service.

circumstances that justify dispensing with service.

You will gain a certificate of attendance for this training.

Release from work to participate in the Round Table, January 22, 1990

Miss Sheen’s hotel porter and gardener, Aaron Stephens, 35, was refused temporary exemption from military service in March 1916.

Verigin tells the Canadian government that Independent Doukhobors, who have left the commune, do not deserve military service exemption.

These concessions include, among other things, the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service and the fact that personal law is under the authority of the rabbinate.

He was threatened with forcible conscription into the army, despite being excused from military service as a registered student and a parliamentary candidate.

Arrangements for leave of absence ensure that volunteers can take part in missions, and thereby enable the principle of volunteer work to function in civil protection.

The process of identifying child soldiers and disqualifying them from military service ended in 2007, but negotiations for their release have dragged on since then.

He should have completed his studies a year ago, but he has delayed his graduation in order to hold onto his dispensation from serving in the army.

He suggests that the Canadian government end Doukhobors’ exemption from military service and identifies Peter Verigin as the key barrier to assimilating them.