Poor men opposed the draft, because it permitted rich men to escape military service.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Then they set fire to the draft office and several buildings nearby.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Earlier this month Jean-Francois Cope, parliamentary floor leader of Mr.Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, introduced draft legislation to ban the face-veil.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Diplomats say the draft resolution endorsing the Goldstone report is likely to be approved by the 192-member body.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

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

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The draft constitution laid claim to oil and gas rights that are contested by the central government.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

If it's helping the kids write more or communicate more in their first draft,that's great, that's what teachers and educators want, to get students communicating,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Jarraud says the Conference will draft an action plan to better manage climate-related risks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

The former Rookie of the Year was the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, just the sixth American to be taken first overall.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The United States presented that draft resolution to the 15-member council last week.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The draft agreement was announced to reporters by the International Atomic Energy Agency's chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has given all parties involved until Friday to approve it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

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

The Iranian press reported earlier this week that Tehran was ready to accept the general framework of the U.N.draft deal, but was insisting on some "important changes."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The IAEA chief did not elaborate on the draft deal, but news agencies report that it is essentially similar to an agreement reached in Geneva earlier this month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

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

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who was once Tehran's top nuclear negotiator, decried the draft deal Saturday, accusing the West of "trying to cheat and impose will on us,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The IAEA draft deal calls for Iran to ship its stockpile of low-grade enriched uranium to Russia to be transformed into more highly enriched uranium for use in Tehran's medical research reactor.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

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

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

(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