"I have circulated a draft agreement that reflects,in my judgment, a balanced approach on how to move forward,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

In the American Civil War,there was a draft, but you could avoid it by hiring somebody to take your place, if you were rich enough.

在美国内战期间，曾有过强制征兵，但是你可以让人代替你，如果你足够有钱的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now incidentally I'm writing a book the title of the book is Subprime Solution; I just sent off the draft to the copy editor last Friday.

顺便提一句，我正在写一本书,名叫《次贷危机解决方案》；,上周五我刚刚将草稿送到文字编辑手中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the mean time, activists have presented a draft law to members of Parliament outlining their requests.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

His first treatise, a book called De Cive, or De Cive, depending on how you pronounce it, On the Citizen, was published in 1642, and it was a kind of draft version of Leviathan that was published almost a decade later, again in 1651.

他第一篇论文，叫De，Cive的书，意思就是《论人》,1642年出版，这也算是《利维坦》的草稿版本,而《利维坦》几乎在10年以后，1651年才出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Under the watchful eye of Lebanese security forces, they urged the country's politicians to approve a draft law that would give them employment and property ownership guarantees.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Crowley said the United States has a sense of urgency on the sanctions and expects that a draft resolution will be ready for presentation "in the next few weeks."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

How do we know that they are not going to keep it all?" The United States and allies France and Russia have supported the IAEA draft deal with Iran as a means to alleviate concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear program to develop atomic weapons covertly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

On July thirteenth, eighteen sixty-three, a crowd formed outside a New York draft office.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

There were a number of protests against the military draft.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The riot began as a political protest against the draft.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Tehran has not,as yet, agreed to the terms of a UN-draft deal to trade for highly enriched uranium from France and Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

President Barack Obama has said that the United States will not "wait indefinitely" for a response from Iran over the U.N.draft nuclear deal.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Former U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has just finished chairing a team that did a first draft of the Concept, and presented it to NATO officials in May.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

In the first round of the 2008 Major League Soccer draft, Espinoza was selected by the Kansas City Wizards, and has become a regular performer for the MLS team.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

(Speech) Iran's official Arabic-language al Alam TV is reporting (No Transcripts) The Iranian Student News Agency reported earlier the head of the parliament's national security committee, Alaedin Borujurdi, would put the U.N.draft nuclear deal between Tehran and the West to a vote of his committee after discussing its pros and cons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20