Sentence examples for brief rather than from inspiring English sources

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

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.

In this study, patients indicate a desire for "brief" rather than "full" written instructions.

While MI was developed to be a brief rather than sustained intervention, it may be particularly useful as a component of obesity treatment programmes.

In brief, rather than having their properties defined in the Fourier domain and then converted to the time domain, the Savitzky-Golay filters are derived directly from a particular formulation of the data smoothing problem in the time domain.

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.

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").

Therefore, alterations in the dynamics of β-AR function in type 2 diabetes and obesity, particularly during anaesthesia, may be reflected more by a briefer, rather than smaller, response.