Sentence examples for drafted onto from inspiring English sources

Even fewer were drafted onto teams.

MacDonald, the academic, had been drafted onto the panel.

Two years later, he was drafted onto the national team, which then qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

One was accepted on a trial basis, while six were drafted onto three of the league's teams: the Elm City Bone Crushers, the Iron Angels and the WidowMakers.

Hundreds of extra police were drafted onto the streets of London to step up security in the wake of the events, but also to reassure the public.

Thousands of extra police officers have been drafted onto foot patrols and the government is seeking to change laws that hamper its ability to pursue terrorists.

Instead, he joined his mother's step-aerobics class and played the bass drum in the band until his coach, seeing him on the field, drafted him onto the team.

On Fox News, Robert Gibbs, the former White House spokesman who has been drafted back onto the campaign trail, talked up Romney's chances in the debate, saying he had had more recent experience in the Republican primaries and caucuses in debating with his rivals.

I was fortunate to be "drafted" this year onto one of the top teams, called the Bruins, managed by player Terry Dolasinski.

Drafted out of Grand Prairie High School in Texas as a power-throwing right-hander in the mold of Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, Wood burst onto the scene in 1998.

But the state's two top legislative leaders, afraid that those cuts on core state services would foist huge property tax increases onto localities, drafted their own budget over the objections of the governor.