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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But of course cowards were treated as deserters, and shot.
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Last war, men who did what he done, they called them deserters.
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Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
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On March 6 pay bonuses were announced for all soldiers and an amnesty was declared for deserters and draft dodgers.
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Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army.
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Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
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The party's share of the vote crawled up to barely 35 percent, thanks largely to Lib Dem deserters.
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The remainder of the grief-stricken deserters were duly punished.