Sentence examples for draft stopped from inspiring English sources

The first time Manning, who was the first pick of the 1998 draft, stopped by the Meridian Street restaurant after a home game during his rookie year, the staff was locking up.

The draft stops short of endorsing the position of Hong Kong's democracy advocates, who contend that no antisedition legislation should be introduced even though it is called for in the Chinese territory's constitution.

Sometimes referred to as a back-door draft, stop-loss is a result of a loophole in the contract soldiers sign upon enlisting that permits "involuntary extensions" in the event of a threat to national security.

My own anxieties were no longer drumming through my brain; my mind, that hobbled old draft horse, stopped loping along in the same rut it followed night after night.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has criticized the proposal and asked that drafting be stopped until after Israel's elections in late January.

Agents and executives expect more teams to consider trading draft picks for restricted players, but a deep draft could stop some teams from going after players with the highest tenders, which would force them to sacrifice high-round draft picks.

The Doha draft would stop members subsidising their farm exports, but says nothing about the opposite, more pressing problem of governments banning food exports.

Eliasson's 2002 project The Reflective Corridor | Draft To Stop The Free Fall, for example, is a waterfall illuminated with a stroboscopic light, flanking two walls of a room you can walk through.

By the time the Ravens were on the clock with the sixth overall pick of the NFL draft Thursday night, the phones in their draft room had stopped ringing.

Layden's faith in the depth of the draft has not stopped the Knicks from attempting to improve their positioning.

But when the phone would not ring during the draft, Simms finally stopped watching it unfold on television.