Sentence examples for be allowed a brief from inspiring English sources

If they are lucky, Ministers may be allowed a brief debate after Mr Brown has thumped his fait accompli in front of them.

The question is, with the Ecuadorian embassy just over the Thames, will Julian Assange be allowed a brief respite to watch the country of his birth take on the country that has provided him political asylum?

While a wide receiver who scores a touchdown should be allowed a brief celebratory spike of the pigskin spheroid, choreographed "dances," even if solos, are totally insufferable.

Xia's wife said she and her mother-in-law were given 30 minutes notice Wednesday morning that they would be allowed a brief visit with the condemned man before the execution.

Xia's wife said she and her mother-in-law were given 30 minutes' notice Wednesday morning that they would be allowed a brief visit with her 37-year-old husband before he was executed.

The kids are allowed a brief visit; Tabby is allowed to stay longer.

(Even in the Life-on-Mars 70s, they were allowed a brief, despite being slaaaaags).

That afternoon, I was allowed a brief audience with a sister who was, if not the Mother Superior, someone highly placed in the nun command.

At the other end Sarwan was adventurous but superb, throwing the bat at Harmison, and driving Hoggard and James Anderson, when he was allowed a brief if innocuous spell.

Cecil's partner, Florence Kebirungi, only found out about the deportation when the director was allowed a brief phone call to her from the airport.

Starving to death and bearing a dead friend on a pole, the men of Bravo Company finish their mission and are allowed a brief rest at one of the main support bases.