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Example sentences for "drafted"

Lexicographically close words:
drachmas; drachms; draconic; drad; draft; drafting; drafts; draftsman; draftsmen; drafty
  1. They were approved by the legislatures of the provinces, embodied in a bill drafted by a committee of Canadian statesmen, and passed by the imperial Government.

  2. The Canadian scheme was based on resolutions drafted by a conference of delegates at Quebec.

  3. A Council of State was at once held, and, after some hours' discussion, a reply drafted by MM.

  4. In the House of Lords, meanwhile, Lord Morley of Blackburn described the idea of a plot as "a sinister hallucination," and mentioned incidentally that the peccant paragraphs had been drafted with his aid.

  5. Bills to secure for them a more just and liberal method of registration, drafted by ex-Governor Long and Mr. Blackwell, were submitted.

  6. The members of the commission who drafted this constitution were President Sanford B.

  7. In 1893 a bill for this purpose, drafted by one of its members, Miss Emma M.

  8. A compromise was finally effected and a bill drafted by which women should vote for all city and school officers and on bonds for school appropriations.

  9. The main business of life is the carrying on of life, and in that business women were drafted long ago for the heaviest end of service and with little social permission to do their work by proxy.

  10. So long as they were apparently sound, and would not break down under a strain, they had been drafted into service.

  11. Property in ceded Territory or surrendered under the Armistice As the Treaty has been drafted Germany will not receive important credits available towards meeting reparation in respect of her property in ceded territory.

  12. Instead of postponing the draft till after the elections, we ought now to have our ranks full of drafted men; and, at best, if they come at all, they will reach us when we should be in motion.

  13. This instruction was drafted by Miss Waterman, and it was sent up for clearance to PTL, Mr. Johnson.

  14. We came to agreement in a talk as to how to handle the case, and I drafted the memorandum which would go to Mr. Crump because he was the officer in the Visa Office handling the case.

  15. Is it fair to say that you would not just initial it merely because somebody else had drafted it?

  16. That telegram also was not drafted by you, and the only reason why your name appears on it is that it was cleared with you over the telephone.

  17. After you drafted this memorandum, did you send the telegram to the Embassy which you suggest in the last paragraph should be sent?

  18. I ask you whether you drafted that letter.

  19. No; you see, the way the telegrams are in the State Department, that first line says drafted by, and then underneath is clearances, and those offices are clearing offices.

  20. This went out the same day, apparently, that the instruction was drafted and was sent in, or the despatch was drafted and sent in.

  21. No; it was drafted by the Visa Office, drafted by V.

  22. After you drafted or after you initialed the memorandum which has been marked as Seeley Exhibit No.

  23. It was drafted on the 20th, apparently sent on the 23d.

  24. And you then, after he got back, drafted a letter to Oswald's mother?

  25. When the treaties drafted by the Conference were submitted by the President to the Senate, they encountered serious opposition, but were finally ratified.

  26. They simply drafted it, and offered it, such as it legally might be, to the people for their adoption or rejection.

  27. They drafted the Declaration of Rights, and pledged the colonies not to use British importations and to export no American goods to Great Britain or to its colonies.

  28. The company during its term received accessions of two substitutes, two drafted men and twenty-four recruits.

  29. There was an unconfirmed report that he was a drafted man.

  30. In November a detachment of substitutes and drafted men reached the regiment; of those Co.

  31. The 193rd had been disbanded, and the few who remained loyal had been drafted into the newly-raised corps.

  32. They may have been drafted into some other regiment and sent a thousand miles away, or both may be killed.

  33. Six hundred men was Detached or Drafted from the army placed under the Command of Col.

  34. The officers drafted this order for him to sign, but when he had signed it they were advised not to publish it, because they pretended that everybody had been in favour of his arrest.

  35. The Act incorporating the Alberta Farmers' Co-Operative Elevator Company, Limited, was drafted in the spring of 1913 and passed unanimously by the Legislature.

  36. The bill reported by Mr. Sumner was drafted by him, and adopted by the Committee.

  37. There seems no end to the illustrations of this exclusion; as, for instance, when a colored woman acted as interpreter between a testator and the person who drafted the will.

  38. We are now drafted to our respective battalions.

  39. We drafted most of them away to the riot centres.

  40. The bill you drafted would have been rushed through Parliament without a moment's delay, if they had not.

  41. The British Labour Party has drafted a Bill which, asserting the right to work, makes provision of work for the unemployed compulsory and enables the local authorities compulsorily to acquire land with a view of setting the unemployed to work.

  42. In 1870 he was a member of the Senate from the Second Norfolk District, and as a member of the Judiciary Committee drafted the well-known corporation act.

  43. In the interpretation given to the Enrolment Act, free citizens of African Descent are treated as citizens of the United States, in the sense of the law, and are everywhere being drafted into the military service.

  44. Vestal, 112 in number, were drafted into the 1st West India Regiment.

  45. They were afterwards drafted into the 60th.

  46. This corps has been reformed, and fifty of the men, who were fit for service, have been drafted into the 1st New West India Regiment.

  47. The original document, still preserved, was drafted by Judge Henderson, being written throughout in his own handwriting; and his name heads the list of two hundred and fifty and more signatures.

  48. Isn't it about time for those drafted men to get down here?

  49. I've heard Peterson say that the drafted men in the Union Army fought as well as the volunteers.

  50. I'm curious to see how the drafted men will take to the life.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drafted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.