Sentence examples for premier draft from inspiring English sources

By comparison, LeBron James, the N.B.A.'s premier draft pick this year, could use his $90 million Nike contract to buy only 16 hours, 37 minutes and 12 seconds of war.

As national director of elementary education (1879 96), he aided Premier Jules Ferry in drafting statutes that took the public schools out of church control (1881, 1886) and made primary education free and compulsory (1882).

At the Council of the Federation meeting in July 2012, Dunderdale was selected as one of three premiers to help draft a national energy strategy on behalf of the Council.

It is hard to believe the Scottish Premier League had to draft in referees from elsewhere because their own are on strike.

That would put them in position to either make a blockbuster trade to move up to get one of the draft's premier players, or to stockpile young talent by using all four picks.

Although Milliner was widely regarded as the premier cornerback in the draft, he had five operations during his career at Alabama and was unable to take the field this off-season because of a shoulder procedure.

McKinnon, at 5-foot-9 and 200-plus, is one of the draft's premier athletes.

Kwame Brown's career began as Curry's did, with big shoulders and high hopes and premier position in the 2001 draft.

Reuters reported last week that Premier Li had "rejected" a draft urbanization plan because it was heavy on infrastructure investment and relatively light on economic reform.

It would be a major surprise if any of the four premier defensive tackles in the draft slide to the Jets; if they do not, the Jets do not have any others graded as first-rounders.

"The media kind of played around with it, the fact that I wasn't invited there, that I wasn't projected to be a top pick," he said of the media event staged the night before the draft, for the premier prospects.