Sentence examples for drafted around from inspiring English sources

CSCEC drafted around  5,000 migrant Chinese labourers on to the holiday island to build the resort, winning work permits for them from the Bahamian government.

The collection includes material as varied as curses against book thieves, early love ballads, hearty drinking songs and a hand-drawn ground plan for a medieval monastery, drafted around A.D. 820, the only such document of its kind.

See, Sprint owes Apple $15.5 million for the iPhone, as detailed in a contract they drafted around the launch of the iPhone 4S.

I kind of liked it better when the Lakers drafted around number 30.

A third one-act play, The Tinker's Wedding, was drafted around this time, but Synge initially made no attempt to have it performed, largely because of a scene in which a priest is tied up in a sack, which, as he wrote to the publisher Elkin Mathews in 1905, would probably upset "a good many of our Dublin friends".

Congress might try to draft around this problem by attempting artfully to preserve "jurisdiction" for the sole purpose of deportation, but that could weaken the case for affirming such statute at the Supreme Court, or at the very least trigger an even broader effort to deport all those whose citizenship would be revoked, bringing the deportation total target to at least 15 million.

Weinstein also drafted individuals around him into his efforts — willingly and not.

These blocks have faces with drafted margins around a prominent boss and are laid in homogeneous header and stretcher courses, one above the other.

Police erected 10ft (3m) barricades around the town centre, while extra officers were drafted in from around the country.

Mr. Gifford has drafted scientists from around the world to make pasta's case.

Mr. Whitaker testified that he also drafted a codicil around that time, not having ever met Mrs. Astor.