Gareth McAuley is likely to be drafted into the defence with Jonny Evans switching to left-back.

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The mayor's proposal would have to be drafted into legislation and passed by the City Council before becoming law.

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Those in the 18-to-24 bracket will be more rigorously screened than in the past, and the ones who are not really studying will be drafted into separate Orthodox army units.

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He wants to replace the "one and done" system, which requires high-school stars to play for at least one year in college, or in Europe, before they can be drafted into the NBA. The result is that some teams with a constant churn of freshmen, like John Calipari's squad at Kentucky, don't so much have student-athletes pursuing a degree, but guest stars.

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So if we were to see women register for selective service, you certainly would see a possibility not only of women being drafted but possibly even being drafted into the infantry in an attempt to be fair.

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Though we are lumped into the 80 million population bulge born between 1946 and 1964, we mid- and late-boomers are a different sort from the leading-edge boomers: too young to be swept up in the liberal idealism of JFK and too young to get drafted into the Vietnam War.

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At first, Clinton was willing to be drafted, but he quickly changed his mind and, with help from his friends, got into the reserves eleven days before his induction date.

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In Britain, Switzerland and the European Union rules are either now in force or being drafted that will force banks to ensure that at least some of their debt can be turned into equity in a crisis.

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