Sentence examples for a draft lottery from inspiring English sources

Let's start with a draft lottery.

Mr. Rove's Christmas birthday gave him a draft lottery number of 84 in 1969.

In 1969 a draft lottery was put in effect, and there was talk of abolishing college deferments.

The N.H.L. will hold a draft lottery next month, and the five worst teams have a chance to get the top pick.

The N.B.A. is a parity-conscious league, the first to institute a salary cap, maximum contracts, a draft lottery, a luxury tax and an increasingly byzantine array of rules aimed at dispersing talent across 30 franchises.

To the Editor: Karl W. Eikenberry and David M. Kennedy propose a draft lottery as one way to reduce the gap between the civilian and military sectors of American society.

For many years, Mr. Trump, 70, has also asserted that it was "ultimately" the luck of a high draft lottery number — rather than the medical deferment — that kept him out of the war.

ESPN has a mock draft lottery that you can participate in here.

Trump got an educational deferment and then a medical one during the Vietnam-era draft, his "bone spurs" magically disappearing once he had secured a high draft lottery number exempting him from military service.

He was in uniform during the Vietnam War era but as a Marine Corps reservist who didn't see any action beyond the Potomac River; by some accounts, only signed up when his number was up - a low draft lottery number - and his five draft deferments had played out.

WWE holds an annual draft lottery, in which WWE superstars switch brands.