Sentence examples for drawing account from inspiring English sources

Got some little thing and left the rest on a drawing account.

His monthly drawing account was sufficient to bankroll the young man's desire to study (lightly) at the Sorbonne and to dine (with relish) at the best of Paris's lower-priced restaurants.

The gifted reporter St. Clair McKelway, who was then the magazine's managing editor, persuaded Mitchell to come to the magazine by promising him a salary rather than the usual drawing account (an account that allowed writers to spend money against the publication of future pieces) that most reporters at the magazine had at the time.

"There was every reason," Groth tells us, "to suppose that if I didn't leave to marry, in the course of a year or two I would be joining the trail of countless trainees before me, moving either into the checking department or to a job as a Talk of the Town reporter, and perhaps from one of those positions to the most coveted of spots, that of a regular contributor with a drawing account".

Then recession hit, and the twentysomething moved from watching the city's glitterati living large to gonzo journalism, beginning with missives from Occupy Wall Street and, in time, writing and drawing accounts of cruelty and conflict from Guantánamo to Syria.

He had originally planned to open the book with a highly drawn account of Kennedy being bullied by Johnson into shooting a deer on his Texas ranch.

It's a fascinating, combative yet warmly drawn account of change in the making; although – as the production makes clear – recent events in the US highlight the racism that endures more than 50 years on.

This was his 17th defeat in 21 attempts, with draws accounting for the other four meetings.

The possibility of account owners drawing down accounts for K-12 makes it almost impossible to create a reliable age-based portfolio.

It's only the second set of financial statements of this kind - drawing accounts from every public body, adding it all together, carefully removing double counting all to provide a picture of UK public financial health.

2D drawing programs account for some of the first computer applications in chemistry and are widely distributed.