Mr. CHURKIN: By the end of 72 hours, we hope that there is going to be a deal, that there is going to be a big draft resolution for full-fledged cessation of hostilities, charting the course towards the political process which will bring about peaceful resolution of this crisis.
And even after losing some pretty big names in the draft last year, he and his terrific coaching team made sure that they did not lose a step.
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As Shaw noted, with the attraction of the NFL draft and big dollars awaiting him in 2011, Luck instead returned to Stanford to complete a degree in architecture.
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Letting big banks get bigger and having them draft their own liquidation plans is the key to ending too-big-to-fail?
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The New York Giants' fifth-round draft pick is big for a defensive back by any standard.
But look more closely at the big new ideas in the draft text on the table and it becomes apparent that they have very little to do with enlargement.
Since it's generally accepted that quarterback, left tackle (who blocks the quarterback's blind side) and defensive end (the big pass rusher) are the premier positions in the game, managers feel pressured to draft them high in order to keep big salaries tied to those positions.
The move was somewhat surprising from Spielman, who has preached that he wants to build through the draft rather than make many big splashes in the free agent market.
Islanders coach Jack Capuano made a rather unconventional lineup change by inserting the big forward Brock Nelson, a first-round draft choice three years ago, into his first NHL game Saturday.
Those who made the list scored lowest in service time and production with the clubs that drafted them (in baseball and hockey, which tend to draft younger players, some never reached the big club at all).
Overall, the top of the NFL draft wasn't dominated as it often is by big-name playmakers -- there were no running backs chosen in the first round.
In April Manmohan Singh's government caved in to another hunger-striker, Anna Hazare, who extracted a big concession, winning for his supporters a right to co-draft an anti-corruption bill.
On the committee corridor the big event of the day is the appearance before the special committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and his junior minister, Mark Harper.
But I did show him a draft and he didn't like that I described Perkins as a big tea-drinker, which Tony was famous for.
"But there is a big part of preparation and knowing what to look for and how to approach a draft, " he added.
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"This guy is big, fast, smart, plays the game the right way, " Ross said after the draft.
The Bobcats' dismal distinction means it will have a 25% chance of getting the top pick in Wednesday's draft lottery -- and the greatest chance at picking Kentucky's all-world big man Anthony Davis.
So while there will be big bills, there will not be nearly as many of them - and some may be scrutinised in draft, and fed into the parliamentary sausage machine a year later.
The layman might think that the obvious big gesture for Stormont to make would be to publish the long delayed Cohesion Sharing and Integration strategy, a draft of which the BBC obtained back in January.
That early culture-changing work is why it was "no big deal" as some writers said recently when Brittney Griner, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft and one of the best female basketball players, came out of the closet, before she even played her first pro basketball game for the Phoenix Mercury.
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