Sentence examples for had just drafted from inspiring English sources

And the report predicted that the problem of rollover crashes of sport utility vehicles would be solved by new rules that federal regulators had just drafted.

I got interested in leap years a few months ago when a group of us in Canada were trying to come up with a title for an independent political platform we had just drafted.

This last remark is similar to the statement which President Harry Truman made on the occasion of his speech concluding the 1945 San Francisco Conference which had just drafted the UN Charter.

In summer 1930, Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of the then-unknown Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote in her diary: "Working on my mothers [sic] story — stupidly, for will it come to anything?" Wilder had just drafted a memoir about growing up in a pioneer family in the 1870s.

Each coach silently believes he has just drafted Deacon Jones.

Italian prosecutors have opened investigations into whether there is cooperation between NGOs and human traffickers, and Rome has just drafted a code of conduct for charities operating in the Mediterranean, banning them from contacting smugglers by phone or firing flares, which might function as a signal to the smugglers.

He'd seen the news that the first Chinese player had just been drafted to the N.H.L., and said that he might like to go to the U.S. some day, too.

From 2007 to 2012, the Jets had just 31 draft picks, by far the fewest in the league.

Talbott has just been drafted by his old Rhodes scholar buddy Bill Clinton to help the new president handle Russia policy.

They are captivated by the oldest (McGonagall) and most famous (Harry) people in the room; either that, or they have just been drafted.

Although many of the players participated in extended spring training, some -- particularly those who have just been drafted -- are just beginning to play or have yet to join the team.