elections in the United States, political drafts are used to encourage or pressure a certain person to enter a political race, by demonstrating a significant...

of a vessel Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a vessel Draft (politics), groundswell...

referred to as draft resistance. Although draft resistance is discussed below as a form of "draft evasion", draft resisters and scholars of draft resistance...

Draft evasion in the Vietnam War was a common practice in the United States and in Australia. Significant draft avoidance was taking place even before...

The Vietnam war draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of...

The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment...

Initially a progressive political organization, Nick Brana formed the party after the 2016 presidential election as a successor to the "Draft Bernie for a People's...

administrative procedure, constitutional law, and legislative and regulatory drafting. Political laws are applied primarily to government officials, candidates, advocacy...

working-class readers to pursue armed resistance to the draft passed by Congress earlier in the year. When the draft began in the city, working-class European Americans...

represent independent political dimensions. The expressions political compass and political map are used to refer to the political spectrum as well, especially...

In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...

The Draft Eisenhower movement was a widespread political movement that eventually persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Chief of Staff of the United States...

players together. In other words, political landscape is what defines relationships between colleagues at a given time. Drafting of this landscape begins with...

The 2016 NBA draft was held on June 23, 2016, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It was televised nationally in the U.S. by ESPN, and was live streamed for...

was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The...

The third rail of a nation's politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician...

Politics (Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics...

Politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary constitutional monarchy, in which the Emperor is the head of...

Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president...

the magnitude of her fame distinguishes her political leverage from other music artists in American politics. Elsewhere, Swift has inspired or been acknowledged...

resistance more than it was draft resistance. The image of draft-card burning was powerful and influential in American politics and culture. It appeared...

civil service appointments and national security matters. Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party (PAP) since the 1959 general...

The politics of Vietnam is dominated by a single party under an authoritarian system, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). The President of Vietnam (Vietnamese:...

American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the...

unpopular war; sexism, in that historically men have been subject to the draft in the most cases; and ideological objection, for example, to a perceived...

The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...

The 2017 NBA draft was held on June 22, 2017, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting...

The 2011 NBA draft was held on June 23, 2011, at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The draft started at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (23:00 UTC)...

"Half-Breed" faction during the Garfield administration. Blaine and his political organization formed an informal coalition with the Stalwarts during the...

Cuba has had a socialist political system since 1961 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a single party...