Sentence examples for a background briefing from inspiring English sources

He wore it around his neck to a background briefing with reporters.

"If you don't want a background briefing, this meeting is over," Mr. Aronsohn said.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon had plans to post the report online and hold a background briefing with the authors.

On Thursday, hoping to subdue the gathering public relations storm, intelligence officials invited reporters to a background briefing to, in their view, set the record straight.

But at a background briefing, Republican leadership and Budget Committee staff members struggled to explain the seeming timidity of the cuts, given the boldness of their party's rhetoric.

The reports did not give a source, but the fact that major newspapers carried the same information suggested they were based on a background briefing by government officials.

At a background briefing on Thursday afternoon, department officials said it was impossible to predict from the data how many colleges would be cut off.

A senior British Treasury official told me at a background briefing in Davos: "Even America isn't big enough to solve this problem on its own..

Ron Hutcheson, a White House correspondent for Knight Ridder and president at the White House Correspondents Association, said he once walked out of a background briefing in protest.

In June 2012, two Times journalists had a background briefing on tax-avoidance schemes with Dave Hartnett, the then permanent secretary for tax at HMRC.

The comments from Dr. Gerberding and other officials were made in what was meant to be a background briefing on various aspects of smallpox.