Sentence examples for working on drafts from inspiring English sources

An earlier version said Tolkien began working on drafts of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in 1916.

Mr Obama, his speechwriters and his national security team were still working on drafts of the speech last week and over the weekend, White House officials said.

White House officials are working on drafts of a possible proposal, but they have not decided how detailed it will be, or even whether the president will deliver it in a planned speech.

He exhibited a youthful energy well into his 80s and was working on drafts of his next project from his hospital bed when he died, the producer Jean-Louis Livi said.

In any given week, a few members of the 20-person writing staff -- the largest in the show's history -- will be squirreled away in their offices working on drafts of new scripts.

The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are all working on drafts, but the idea still sticks in the craw of the funds, who think they are being singled out for discriminatory treatment.

Meanwhile, Egypt's interim parliament, the Shura council, said it was working on drafting a law to regulate protests.

In Germany, for instance, a team at the finance ministry is working on draft amendments to the stock exchange and securities laws to implement MiFID.

Congress is working on draft legislation to create a 10-year US National Quantum Initiative (NQI), with almost $1.3 billion of funding, to boost research efforts and develop a quantum workforce.

Not pending contracts or other things that had to remain secret, but when I was working on draft presentation I was putting it in the blog.

And in New York, the state attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer, is working on draft legislation for Mr. Grassley imposing more stringent reporting on the Red Cross and other congressionally chartered groups that Congress could get this summer.