Sentence examples for be drafted for a from inspiring English sources

I blame him for squandering all the positive feeling in America after 9/11, particularly among young Americans who wanted to be drafted for a great project that would strengthen America in some lasting way -- a Manhattan project for energy independence.

But Brown will be remembered most as a portly college catcher who was a central figure in "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, the book on the revolutionary way Oakland identified players to be drafted for a system that had little money to spend because of the team's low-revenue status.

Many had been drafted for a year in October 1940 but Congress extended their tour of duty an addition 18 months in August 1941.

By then plans had been drafted for a permanent campus on 49.8 acres bordering the Long Island Rail Road tracks between 158th and 165th Streets.

(Thompson, who won a screenwriting Oscar for her 1995 adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility," was drafted for a last-minute rewrite after cast members started complaining about the script).

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, plans were drafted for a new terminal with 19 gates and a possible expansion to 27 gates.

However, parliament must also revisit much of the law governing surveillance, which was drafted for an age that never anticipated the dominance of internet-based communication in our daily lives.

Such a change would need to be written into Iraq's new constitution, which parliamentarians are drafting for an Aug. 15 deadline.

"If you were drafting for an N.B.A. team, would Loren Woods be the guy who could solve your center problems?" asked one scout.

Since he was drafted for the position a week before Christmas 2002, Mr. Kean has often said the commission, formally the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was "set up to fail".

At 18 she was drafted for two years' service as a reporter for the Israeli army's magazine.