Sentence examples for attempt to brief from inspiring English sources

It comes just weeks after Exxon dispatched a lobbyist and a planning executive to Rome in an attempt to brief the Vatican on global warming.

Still, there was another attempt to brief top Russian military officials, this time in New York a week later during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

Nevertheless, the authors say, when Detective Eddie Norris attempted to brief his superiors on the breakthrough, he was quickly cut off.

But it also allows for a classic comic scene when Giles attempts to brief the Scoobies on the Gentlemen using an overhead projector.

Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown's press officer, was often in conflict with Campbell because of the former's attempts to brief the press by his own initiatives; this continued until his resignation in 1999.

I attempted numerous times to brief the section (of which I am a member) on the issues, but they refused to allow me to participate.

From the eBay listing, In an effort for full disclosure about why this item has been listed and re-listed numerous times I will attempt to give a brief description about the events that led to its being de-listed twice, and why it is now up again.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Eliot Spitzer stirred a firestorm recently when he claimed that several large financial firms, including Bank of America and Janus Capital, allowed a big-money trader to move quickly in and out of mutual funds in an attempt to profit from brief price discrepancies.

All in all, the Two Decades of Memes exhibit is a noble attempt to canonize a brief chronicle of internet folklore, but it doesn't address how memes are getting more political, and more meta, as the years pile on.

The following sections attempt to capture in brief the strengths and limitations of each of several classes of data sources.

An alternative strategy attempts to detect brief spurts of evolution presumed to occur coincident with functional innovation.