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1793 H. M. Williams Lett. France IV. iv. 124 Two other armies..are placed in the center, to keep internal order, and serve as depots for recruitment and occasional service.

1799 Edinb. Advertiser 9 Apr. 230/2 The Court..are of opinion, That the prisoner..did make an offer to receive horses for the late augmentation and recruitment of his regiment.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 39 Do you expect..that your indispensable Aristocracy of Talent is to be enlisted straightway, by some sort of recruitment aforethought, out of the general population?

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 216 The officer in charge of the recruitment of the army.

1914 Hansard Lords 24 Nov. 459 My original arrangement with Lord Kitchener was that a starred man should neither be solicited for recruitment nor accepted for the Army if he offered himself.

1945 in Amer. Speech (1946) 21 78/2 The material included with this letter describes..the availability of recruitments from this company.

1991 Brit. Jrnl. Criminol. 21 366 Recruitment from minority ethnic groups is not a specialist activity for the staff of a specialist police recruiting department; it is an aspect of all officers' work.

2005 P. W. Singer in A. Bryden & H. Hänggi Security Governance in Post-conflict Peacebuilding iii. vi. 120 Progress has been made in recent years towards bringing attention to the recruitment and use of child soldiers.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 518 Sleep..is necessary for the recruitment of the little weary frame.

1896 J. B. Thomson Life Jos. Thompson 116 It required only a week or two..to give him perfect recruitment and re-invigoration.

1915 D. Lloyd George in Morning Post 2 Mar. 7/2 It has been a great pleasure to me to come down to Llandudno, a great recruitment.

1938 Jrnl. du Conseil Internat. pour l'Explor. de la Mer 10 266 A stock will be in equilibrium with fishing when..C = A + G − M where C is capture, A is recruitment, G is growth, M is natural mortality.

1954 W. E. Hiley Woodland Managem. xx. 357 A number of trees will be included, which have grown..but were omitted from the earlier enumeration because they had not then reached this size. These are called ‘recruited trees’... It has been claimed that the volume of these trees—the recruitment—should be omitted from the calculation.

1970 S. H. Gardiner tr. E. Assmann Princ. Forest Yield Study 459 The lower the threshold of measurable diameter the smaller is the amount of recruitment.

2006 Molecular Ecol. 15 89/1 Small populations that are more dependent on immigration for recruitment tend to have sex ratios biased towards the dispersing sex.

1948 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 41 752 At any spot where infecting organisms are detained, there occur local production of antibodies and local recruitment of cells of the system.

1969 Jrnl. Immunol. 103 668 (title) Recruitment and proliferation of immunocompetent cells during the log phase of the primary antibody response.

1973 Lab. Investig. 28 56/1 Small bronchioles, bronchi, and tracheas showed cells distributed within all three layers which suggested recruitment by movement of cells from capillaries through the epithelium to airway lumina.

1985 Agents & Actions 16 48/1 Amplification and perpetuation of the primary inflammatory response depends on leukocyte recruitment by leukotaxis.

2007 Toxicol. Lett. 168 95/1 The loss of functional endothelium leads to..recruitment of leukocytes to the site of vascular injury.

1923 E. G. T. Liddell & C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 95 335 The several forms assumed by the course of the ascent indicate the various time relations exhibited by the progressive involvement of additional motoneurones during the development of the reflex. That process may, for convenience of statement, be designated ‘recruitment’.

1937 C. H. Best & N. B. Taylor Physiol. Basis Med. Pract. lxv. 1278 Many reflexes gradually increase to a maximum when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is merely prolonged. This is due to the activation of a progressively greater number of motoneurons. The phenomenon is called recruitment and is figuratively spoken of as ‘inertia’ by Sherrington.

1943 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. 33 208 Represent the progressive recruitment of synaptic pathways involved.

1975 A. J. Vander et al. Human Physiol. (ed. 2) viii. 210 The tension of the muscle can be controlled by the recruitment of additional motor units.

1990 Brain 113 343 It remains to be demonstrated whether the determinant factor is actually the size of the external load per se or the degree of recruitment of the working muscle.

2003 Muscle & Fitness Jan. 164/1 It [sc. boxercise] combines use of both aerobic and anaerobic energy systems with the systematic recruitment of both fast and slow twitch muscle fibres.

1937 E. P. Fowler in Arch. Otolaryngol. 26 517 When there is no recruitment of loudness in the poorer ear, i.e., no change in the differences in hearing at the thresholds required to balance the loud sounds binaurally, it means that there is an impedance (conduction) lesion in the poorer ear.

1948 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 41 517 The deafness of the affected ear present at threshold disappears at higher intensities, and this in its simplest terms constitutes the phenomenon of Loudness Recruitment.

1960 Jrnl. Speech & Hearing Res. 3 15/1 The classical technique for the direct measurement of loudness recruitment in subjects with unilateral hearing loss is performed by having the subject equate the loudness of a pure tone on one ear with the loudness of a pure tone of identical frequency on the other ear.

1998 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 103 2010 The results..suggest a correspondence between BM [sc. basilar membrane] displacement and loudness perception in cases of recruitment.