Sentence examples for briefing items from inspiring English sources

In this context I want to address in some detail one of the briefing items that we did receive, since its content has been frequently mischaracterized.

This briefing item was not prompted by any specific threat information.

"Money for Amtrak Slashed" (National Briefing item, June 7): Huh? Shouldn't that read "Money for Amtrak Tripled"?

The United States should sign the treaty setting up an international criminal court (World Briefing item, Sept. 14).

A Sept. 17 World Briefing item says that according to James Morris, the head of the United Nations World Food Programm, 14.4 million people in southern Africa face starvation.

Uganda rejects Sudan's claim that its defeat for a Security Council seat occurred because the United States browbeat or paid off African delegates (World Briefing item, Oct. 13).

I am disappointed by the support for a House resolution labeling as genocide the 1915 killings of Armenians in Turkey (World Briefing item, Sept. 27).

In your March 2 Arts Briefing item announcing the acquisition by Houghton Mifflin of my novel "The Plot Against America," you say my Lindbergh "blames Jews in a radio address for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany".

You report (World Briefing item, Sept. 27) that the Clinton administration opposes the House's effort to recognize and commemorate the Armenian genocide of 1915 -- arguing that history should decide.

Americans should applaud and support the steps taken by the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to try to end the quarter-century division of their island ("Turkish and Cypriot Leaders Meet," World Briefing item, Dec. 6).

"Progress Reported in Lockerbie Talks" (World Briefing item, June 8) noted that British, American and Libyan officials are close to agreeing on language for Libya's acceptance of responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.