Sentence examples for brief on a from inspiring English sources

The cemetery, a find of international importance, came as a shock to Canterbury Archaeological Trust which had been keeping a rather bored watching brief on a building site believed to have been scoured clean by Victorian brick-clay diggers.

Taxi to the Dark Side is practically a legal brief on a homicide perpetrated not by Corsetti and other guards but by those who gave them no instruction on the management and interrogation of detainees.

Miles said his interpretation was that Unesco had a "watching brief" on a reef plan it approves of but wants to see implemented over two- and five-year timeframes.

But the screenplay, which the director wrote with Tim Marbeck and Steven Hillyer, is far too schematic for the movie to be more than a laboriously studied brief on a hot-button issue.

It would be unusual for a candidate for political office to file an amicus brief on a measure that they might be in more of a position to weigh in on were they elected, though I guess it could happen.

In brief, on a 2.4-GHz processor it took ∼13 min per 1000 Gibbs samples to fit the model.

THE current print edition contains a briefing on a "great deceleration" across emerging markets.

Cameron, new to office, spent the last part of 2010 being briefed on a heightened terrorist threat to the UK.

When he was appointed as head of the Met in 1993, he was briefed on a number of corrupt officers.

The following year, President Obama visited the U.K., and was briefed on a report that Steele had written about Russia.

Four days after Comey briefed Trump, CNN reported that the President-elect had been briefed on a scandalous dossier supplied by a former British intelligence operative.