How to Use mobilization in a Sentence

mobilization

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  • The law has raised fears that a second wave of mobilization for the war in Ukraine could be imminent.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The key thing in the last few months is that, at the end of September, Russia began mobilization.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • After the chaos and shock brought on by the partial mobilization last fall, things have settled down.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • At home, Ukraine has stumbled on the overhaul of mobilization rules.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Here's how to do a mobilization backbend: Start in a split stance, with one foot slightly behind you and the heel slightly raised.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The 9/11 attacks made his Navy mobilizations more frequent, and his time at home more cherished.
    — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That could make new mobilizations for its war in Ukraine more efficient – and much harder to evade.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • But the pool of voters needing mobilization appears to have shrunk, too, as turnout has hit record levels.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Why isn't there more grassroots mobilization at the state level?
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • Most reservists were already in Israel at the time of the call-up – the largest such compulsory mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    — Helen Coster and Alexander Cornwell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • With no idea how to escape the war, Igor contacted a friend who fled Russia to avoid mobilization and who told him to call Go by the Forest.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Orain left the country after the invasion and then returned, and left the country during last fall’s mobilization, and is not the one behind the camera.
    — Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Wiebe said there were two surges of arrivals: right after the war started, and then after Russia’s draft mobilization.
    — Nyimas Laula, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • That was followed by a mobilization of groups in the diaspora.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Both sides have built up mobilization efforts over the past few weeks -- knocking on doors, canvassing and hosting rallies across the state.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The partial mobilization in the fall of 2022 briefly called into question the state’s promise, but since then the authorities have largely solved the problem.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And lots of Russian soldiers, especially the conscripts mustered in a fall mobilization drive, don't want to die in Ukraine.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Putin last fall announced the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists — pushing many young Russian men to flee or hide.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • At one IndyCar race this season, a member laid on his back on pit lane and Galloy did hip mobilization work.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
  • The measure, expected to be signed into law soon by Putin, has fueled fears a new mobilization may come later this year.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Putin has not ordered the full mobilization of Russia’s reservists.
    — Karolina Hird, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The new perk is unlikely to soften most Russians’ view of the mobilization, however.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Then, last autumn, a military mobilization spurred hundreds of thousands of men to run.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
  • As Ukraine considers a new mobilization law to call up more male soldiers, those figures could shift further.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2024
  • So did the mobilization for an Israeli ground offensive.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • For over 50 years, Earth Day has been celebrated across the country, and the globe, through the mobilization for environmental causes.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Both countries have seen their economies devastated, Ukraine’s most acutely from the toll of war on its soil, but Russia’s too, from the cost of military mobilizations and the weight of Western sanctions.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Since then, the government has tried to postpone another round of mobilization for as long as possible.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • General mobilization has been ordered in Britain and France.
    — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Whether or not that same level of political mobilization happens this time around with deepfakes remains to be seen.
    — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2024

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