So legislation was pushed, paid for and effectively drafted by thousands of lobbyists.
National Guard and Reserve members find themselves effectively drafted as full-time soldiers.
Many of the classes require presentations, including the dreaded Powerpoint team presentation), but there weren't any classes on delivering speeches effectively, drafting memos, or copywriting an ad.
Now in their 80s, these Filipino veterans, effectively drafted in World War II to fight alongside the U.S. military against Japan, are dying, about 10 a day, while they still hope to win veterans benefits for their service.
Among the returnees are Afghans who went to Iran as laborers but ended up being sent to Syria — some effectively drafted, others signing up for religious reasons — to fight in a Shiite Muslim militia known as the Fatemiyoun Division, trained by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard.
Saying that there are too few qualified mathematics teachers to educate children effectively, a draft of a report by the panel, set up by Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy, said that one way the city could fill in the gaps would be to develop a corps of highly trained specialists to move from class to class to teach basic mathematics or to serve as consultants for other teachers.
This would be, effectively, the second draft of an order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees.
The draft effectively gives immunity to Israel's occupying forces, denies Hizbullah, or any other Lebanese party, the right to resist the continued violation of Lebanese sovereignty and soil, says not a word about an Israeli withdrawal, and does nothing to bring the population back to their homes and thus safeguard Lebanon's domestic balance and political future.
The announcement by the governing Christian Democratic Union, and its sister party, the Christian Social Union, was a victory for Germany's popular defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who last month proposed effectively ending the draft as part of the most far-reaching restructuring of the military since the cold war.
