force-draft

[ fawrs-draft, -drahft, fohrs- ]

verb (used with object)

1. to draft (a law, proposal, or the like) quickly or under extreme pressure:

   The committee must force-draft a code of ethics to present to the meeting tomorrow.

2. to cause to proceed at full speed or intensity.

Example Sentences

But Administration economic policymakers, also backed up by some of the nation's top economists, believe that an effort to force-draft the economy into an average 5% growth rate through deficit spending would bring feverish price upcreep, and would therefore hinder growth instead of fostering it.

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A continual alternation between melodrama and fashion show, Stolen Holiday is capably acted, but labors under a script full of force-draft effervescence.

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Nixon agreed that U.S. economic growth "must be accelerated by policies and programs stimulating our free enterprise system," a declaration that did no violence to his conviction that Government should not try to force-draft any specified rate of growth.

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Chief Judge Lumbard's defense of the police position reflects the majority view in a debate now taking place in the prestigious American Law Institute, which is trying to force-draft a model code of pre-arraignment procedures.

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