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draft someone for something to select someone for something or to do something. We drafted a bunch of the boys for moving tables. The committee drafted some of the members for kitchen work. draft someone into something 1. . Lit. to conscript someone into the armed services. The draft board drafted Scott into the army. Todd was drafted into the army. 2. Fig. to convince someone to participate in something. She drafted some of the boys into helping her move tables. They were drafted into helping. feel a draft to sense that one is being rejected; to sense that someone is cool toward one, possibly for racial reasons. Oh, man, I feel a draft in here. Let's leave. What a reception! I sure felt a draft. See also: feel How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Rather than craft a straightforward and simple fix to eminent-domain rules, the drafters of Proposition 90 opted to go further -- inserting other far-reaching and unrelated provisions into the California Constitution. The drafters of our Constitution had themselves been the victims of such abuse of power by King George III. A solemn papal declaration that Jews were cursed by God for killing Jesus, something that had never been formally defined in Catholic doctrine, would have established a contemporary authoritative precedent that would have made it virtually impossible for the drafters of Nostra aetate to state "the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture. |
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