I am currently working on research to advise governments how health systems can be rebuilt, drawing on lessons from countries that have improved their health systems.
As his team very likely heads for its first last-place finish since 2005, Tracy said he found himself drawing on lessons from Keli McGregor, the former team president and N.F.L. tight end who died in 2010.
New mechanisms for evidence-informed assessments have also been created, drawing on lessons from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such as the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), formed in 2012 and now involving 125 countries.
The administration was drawing on lessons from past cases: Charles Taylor, the former Liberian leader accused of war crimes, who was returned to Liberia by Nigeria, where he had fled, and put on trial in The Hague; and Laurent Gbagbo, the deposed leader of Ivory Coast, who is awaiting trial at home.
Drawing on lessons from the success of the 2012 Olympics, where a specific site was identified and then developed on time and on budget, all communities will have similar powers at their disposal as part of an extended devolution to English local government and its city and county regions.
Dan Schnur, who worked on Mr. McCain's 2000 campaign and is the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, said the McCain campaign seemed to be drawing on lessons from watching the Democratic primary fight between Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
They will draw on lessons learnt from the BSE (mad cow) and foot and mouth crises in the UK and the current bird flu outbreak there, among others.
During her remarks, Mrs. Clinton drew on lessons from the Torah, saying Israelis are asking for "the inheritance that is their just due, a chance to keep their children safe from violence and terrorism".
The coalition can draw on lessons from abroad where justice reinvestment and prisoner re-entry programmes, driven by economic necessity in many states in America, have had considerable success at reducing crime and rates of reoffending.
In page after page, the handbook draws on lessons from Wanat and other missions, some successful and some that resulted in death and injury for American and allied forces.
She emphasizes the importance of enlisting national advocacy groups that can draw on lessons from court consent decrees they have won in suits against child welfare systems in at least 20 states.
