Sentence examples for drawing of names from inspiring English sources

Regiment, which had been hastily recalled from Gettysburg, and the drawing of names proceeded on August 19 without incident.

On Wednesday, 30 pianists from 13 countries will gather at a hotel ballroom in downtown Fort Worth for a drawing of names, a tradition that will establish the performance schedule for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Minor riots occurred in several cities, and when the drawing of names began in New York on July 11 , 1863 mobs (mostly of foreign-born, especially Irish, workers) surged onto the streets, assaulting residents, defying police, attacking draft headquarters, and burning buildings.

In the 1930's Alfred H. Barr Jr., founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, made a flowchart for modernism, a near-maniacal drawing of names and arrows, a utopian vision for explaining the order of things; ingenious, inevitably flawed, its ambition was awesome and poetic.

According to a recent article in the Corriere della Sera, under a deal just reached between the two sides, Beijing would accept the pope to name bishops but only those drawn from a list of names drawn up by the government-supported Church.

Some sheiks say they are drawing up lists of names.

The Stage kept drawing its share of names: Geoffrey Rush, Liev Schreiber, Ray Liotta and Linda Lavin were regulars, Mr. Zolenge said.

There are going to be games this weekend, nine of them in fact, and most will transpire as if drawing names out of a hat to decide the fate of one of the league's highest-paid players never happened.

Health professionals were selected from those who had participated in all four rounds of the online Delphi survey, and a further selection was made to include a range of the different professions by drawing names out of a hat.

One woman, Rashida, described militants choosing women by drawing their names out of a "lottery".

The sampling procedure consisted of drawing names from the list until the desired number of participants was achieved.