Sentence examples for briefed himself from inspiring English sources

Peter MacKay, a conservative leader in the House of Commons, said of Mr. Martin, "To think that he hadn't briefed himself is just unbelievable".

Morgan, however, had briefed himself on Batista, who had seized power in a coup, in 1952: how the dictator liked sitting in his palace, eating sumptuous meals and watching horror films, and how he tortured and killed dissidents, whose bodies were sometimes dumped in fields, with their eyes gouged out or their crushed testicles stuffed in their mouths.

So who's briefing him on the P.D.B.'s? A. The briefer himself.

The tables are turned today: the K.G.B. man briefing himself is the Russian leader.

"He wrote the briefs himself; he paid the court costs; it became his mission for future filmmakers, was how he saw it," said Jacqueline Stewart, a professor of radio, television and film and African-American studies at Northwestern University, who interviewed Mr. Fanaka for the L.A. Rebellion retrospective.

Houston himself briefed, argued, and won several important Supreme Court cases, including Gaines v. Missouri, which outlawed the University of Missouri's policy of providing a whites-only law school, and Shelley v. Kraemer, which prohibited racial restrictions in residential housing.

Mr. Clinton himself was briefed on the legal options shortly before that visit.

Whether Musharraf himself was briefed on the attack before it occurred "I can't say," Mishra, the national-security adviser, told me, but, as for other senior generals in the Pakistani Army, he said, "certainly they knew".

Both payments pre-date Patten's time as BBC Trust chairman, but Thompson will seek to show that he was himself fully briefed on the detail of the payouts and so cannot claim to have been kept in the dark.

The local press was unconvinced, even though it had been thoroughly briefed on the incident by Gill himself.

Frank himself has spent time with Norquist, getting briefed on the plan over lunch at the Palm.