Sentence examples for brief rather from inspiring English sources

After a brief, rather unlikely, stint as a fashion photographer working under Alexey Brodovitch, an art director at Harper's Bazaar, he hit the road.

If that club was punished it would reasonably give a man with a big brain a big brief rather than cede the points.

From a stage set up at a roundabout, Jokowi thanked his supporters in a brief, rather flat speech.Prabowo Subianto (pictured left) held his rally at Bung Karno stadium, which seats more than 80,000.

But when he is sticking to his official brief, rather than winging it, Johnson continues to maintain that Britain and Saudi Arabia are close allies acting in concert, and that a legal and moral "threshold" has not been crossed by Saudi actions in Yemen.

In brief, rather than estimating the original image knowing the degraded image and the point spread function (PSF) as usually done, we estimate the PSF knowing the degraded and the original images.

There was a brief, rather tense time of waiting after he made the pitch, but then one evening he phoned me, voice shaking with excitement, saying we had the official permission to proceed.

As his own lawyer, he is firing briefs rather than bullets.

That's why they now have special advisers, though that role often involves bag-carrying and media briefing rather than policy development.

If we were expecting doubts and regrets from Tony Blair, there were none, apart from a grudging admission that it would have been better to publish the full intelligence briefing, rather than compose the "dodgy" dossier.

The company set up a compensation fund for phone-hacking victims and Trinity Mirror executives briefed, rather hopefully, that there was now no need for the high court trial to go ahead.

Another concerned the limited pleasures of reading legal briefs rather than serious books ("I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy").