Meanings of able-bodied citizens in английском

Who could afford to divert able-bodied citizens to feed, clothe, and guard other able-bodied citizens?

He called upon all able-bodied citizens to enroll themselves, and complained that Philadelphia failed to respond.

The trouble with Mexico had caused many of the able-bodied citizens of California to enlist in the service.

A nation of which the army consists of four million able-bodied citizens does not go to war lightly.

All the magistrates and able-bodied citizens had followed their King to Flodden, whence very few of them returned.

Martial law was proclaimed, and all able-bodied citizens were ordered to report for work on the fortifications south of Covington.

The great European States maintain standing armies in which all able-bodied citizens have to pass a longer or shorter period of military training.

They ordered constables and able-bodied citizens to use barrels and carriages as makeshift riot barricades at the major intersections, which some of them did.

Most of the able-bodied citizens voluntarily offered their services, and took their places in the rifle-pits, but there were some who refused to go.