Sentence examples for background briefing for from inspiring English sources

'He won't sign a full extension,' said one Senior Administration Official at a White House background briefing for reporters on the Super Committee.

The possibility of a joint peace‐keeping force was raised here a week ago in a private background briefing for news executives.

The White House's official background briefing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, describes her as a "A Sharp and Fearless Trial Judge" and points to her 1995 injunction that ended the baseball strike.

At a background briefing for reporters, another D.E.A. official said some drug smugglers had developed ways to hide several pounds of drugs inside a car's transmission while still allowing the engine to function.

On Monday it held a background briefing for reporters on the progress it has made and circulated a copy of the inspector general's study, and a rebuttal, on Capitol Hill, people involved with the report said.

"There is a lot of misinformation out there," said one senior administration official during a background briefing for reporters on Tuesday, pointing to wilder claims that the United Nations gets to pick who comes into the country.

For a detailed description of how the attack played out read the US State Department background briefing from last week.

In a background briefing note for a meeting of the president's committee in September, attended by the Treasury chief secretary Greg Hands, the CBI says: "In public statements we've highlighted support for a higher skilled, higher wage economy but stressed that a national living wage does not reflect firms' ability to pay, calling it a 'big gamble'.

By the time we all reconvened for a background briefing in Berlin at 5am, the rest of the prime minister's overseas trip was fundamentally recast, in atmospherics as well as substance.

When Politico's reporters approached them, his staff could have invited them in for a background briefing and laid out what happened at the National Restaurant Association from his perspective, including some of the incidents at the heart of the charges.

But not, it seems, the inability of Congress to imagine an existence without the leadership of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty.I was thinking of April 2004, when I visited Congress's Delhi headquarters for a background briefing ahead of an imminent general election.