As the original draft phrased it, "Every objection to the federal Constitution which [these criticisms] imply may at least with equal force be applied to this State [New York].
Conversation was for him a continuous experiment, in which he'd playfully draft phrases, similes and metaphors to fit the experience in hand, as if everything that happened might be a potential poem in the making.
Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhang first drafted those phrases more than three years ago with about eight other friends.
The draft eliminated all phrases like "racist, settler ideology" and "racist practices of Zionism".
If journalism really is the first rough draft of history the phrase is Philip Graham's then it requires at least a few practitioners with an epic sensibility and an appreciation of the possibilities of political life.
Federalist No. 3 [13367 (no image)] opens with one of the rare passages in Jay's writings praising the American people as "intelligent and well informed". In the draft, significantly, the phrase "left to the" was excised and "well informed" appears without this critical reservation.
According to a leaked copy of the draft, the key phrase in the forthcoming report will say: "It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010".
Readers would have had to slog through my shitty first draft (Anne Lamott's phrase, not mine) which I, demonstrating a combination of dazzling self-confidence and ignorance, sent to a big literary agent.
We excluded 36 genomes containing the phrases "draft" or "nearly complete" in the header line, or whose sequences contain more than 10 distinct locations with at least 5 consecutive ambiguous nucleotides.
The draft rule interprets this phrase by looking at four factors, three of which contain major landmines for non-American banks.
Sod's law, as the production team tried to keep up with the busy events of an election night, the first draft with the offending phrase was the one they used.
