Sentence examples for sight draft from inspiring English sources

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sight draft

noun

A draft to be paid on presentation.

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Bill of exchange, also called draft or draught, short-term negotiable financial instrument consisting of an order in writing addressed by one person (the seller of goods) to another (the buyer) requiring the latter to pay on demand (a sight draft) or at a fixed or determinable future time (a time draft) a certain sum of money to a specified person or to the bearer of the bill.

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His routine was like the art it produced: drawings, models, photographs, everything was laid out in plain sight on drafting tables and on some of the early Modernist desks Judd collected.

Less than three minutes later the Los Angeles Times website published an initial piece on the subject, at first sight a wire drafted in haste by a press agency: "A shallow magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported Monday morning five miles [8km] from Westwood, California, according to the US Geological Survey.

On Sept. 11, when the father figure we instinctively turn to, the president, was largely out of sight, we had to draft a new national dad, at least temporarily, and so we gravitated to the obvious stand-ins: the network anchormen.

Among the sights at the N.F.L. draft in April was Kennedy and DeMatteo walking around together inside the Theatre at Madison Square Garden.

The more I thought about it, the more I liked the hide-the-spare-magazine-in-plain-sight gag, so I did a draft of that scene.

He especially liked the sight of Lance Stephenson, a 2010 second-round draft pick who played at Brooklyn's Lincoln High, filling up the stat line with 11 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals.

It was the first day of the NFL draft, and my eyes caught sight of ESPN on a television at one end of the bar.

The Houston Rockets own the No. 1 pick and have had their sights set on Yao since winning the draft lottery.

A shoot on sight law gives the government the right to draft soldiers on to the streets and open fire on people, if they are considered to be a risk to security.

Umenyiora also struck a blow for all of the Giants' high draft picks, who have been rare sights in the first eight games.

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