drawing-up

He followed the advice of his aunt and confided the drawing-up of the marriage contract to Maitre Mathias.

A Marriage Contract 2007

It was alleged that the company was involved in the drawing-up of the department's security tender worth R237 million, which was later awarded to them.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

Constitutional Assembly, which has the task of drawing-up and approving the new constitution.

Contents 2004

I have seen a great many lists of her drawing-up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through -- and very good lists they were -- very well chosen, and very neatly arranged -- sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

The biggest policy exercise in which his department was involved was the drawing-up of a White Paper on local government.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Apart from Parliament and organised local government structures and bodies being involved, an external advisory panel would be set up in the drawing-up process.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The International Olympic Committee's evaluation committee will visit Cape Town in early December as a preliminary to the drawing-up of a short list of candidate cities.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The drawing-up of the codicil according to his wishes.

The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

The suddenness of the display was like the drawing-up of a stage curtain, with a melo-dramatic army and castle behind.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

There is no regular design, no continuous outline; immense, costly, new, they sprout upwards -- sprout as if under the drawing-up power of a tropical sun, sprout as if fed with the superabundant fecundity of virgin soil.

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch