Sentence examples for brief items from inspiring English sources

They are not intended as a prescriptive checklist and of course shorter articles or NIBs ["news in brief" items] will not be able to cover every point.

At a time when several other major newspapers left it to brief items inside the sports section, I think The Times performed a service in alerting a broader audience to an important story.

Although Beijing's leaders have been silent about the victory of Chen Shui-biandand the state media have run only brief items, every educated Beijinger now seems to know the details from satellite TV and the Internet.

I will, though, note the following brief items: (1) Much of US politics, and most of the pundit reaction to the NSA stories, are summarized by this one single visual from Pew: The most vocal media critics of our NSA reporting, and the most vehement defenders of NSA surveillance, have been, by far, Democratic (especially Obama-loyal) pundits.

I'm traveling rather extensively this week - the last week of travel I have for quite some time, thankfully - so here are several brief items worthy of note: (1) As the Guardian was the first to report, the physicist Stephen Hawking withdrew from "a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians".

(Fun fact: For decades, the United Press International news service sent to newspapers around the country brief items that could be used to fill out columns of type if they came up short. The items, which would now probably be called factoids, carried the headline "Now You Know").

A brief item referring to a related article inside.

By June 30, a brief item said the World Jewish Congress put the death toll at one million.

BT: And also in the new issue, there's a brief item on language study today.

A brief item about the dinner appeared in The Daily News on May 18, in Mitchell Fink's gossip column.

A brief item on April 13 about developments in homeland security gave a misleading figure for the number of Americans who subscribe to a mobile phone service.