Sentence examples for brief has been from inspiring English sources

It is tempting to call him young Hipkiss, so brief has been his spell in the team.

His brief has been distributed between Norman Baker and Andrew George, two of the Liberal Democrats' more individual MPs.

The brief has been signed by a broad cross-section of American businesses from every region of the country, reflecting the commitment to the issue that has evolved, at first slowly and then forcefully, over the past decade.

Her brief has been to try and turn around a company whose share of the online advertising market is being rapidly eroded by the likes of Facebook and Google.

Significantly, the Green Deal no longer has a minister directly responsible for the programme, while the energy efficiency brief has been handed to Lord Bourne – the most junior minister in the department who divides his time with the Welsh Office, and is unpaid.

The Wards have a larger London garden than most – it's a corner plot – with chickens and fruit trees, but a major part of Boycott's brief has been to find new gardens, a scheme called Capital Growth, which aims to find 2,012 new growing spaces by 2012.

Whatever could the brief have been?

The Lessig brief had been eagerly awaited by the government, Microsoft and antitrust experts.

He warned that criminals would try to appeal their conviction if they knew that their brief had been given a low rating in that trial.

Signed copies of their Supreme Court "red brief" have been auctioned for as much as $30,000 at gay-rights charity events.

For the last week, the White House daily briefing has been consumed by often prosaic questions about the budget talks between President Obama and Republicans on Capitol Hill.