Sentence examples for briefing on condition from inspiring English sources
The official spoke at a briefing on condition that she would not be quoted by name.
The official, who held a news briefing on condition that he not be identified, said Senate Republicans wanted to put in place some kind of procedure for ensuring that Mr. Bush's nominees could not be bottled up or rejected outright in committee.
"There's no debate in the U.S. administration about the fact — and it is a fact — that Russia interfered in our democratic election," a senior U.S. official told reporters in a recent briefing on condition of anonymity.
Briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, administration officials have argued that it would only take one or two discoveries of weapons locations not on the Iraqi list to convince the United Nations Security Council that Mr. Hussein is still attempting to deceive.
The officials who participated in the briefing spoke on condition of anonymity, saying only that doing so would allow them to talk more freely.
"Nobody needs the collapse of the Palestinian Authority," a senior Israeli security official said in a recent briefing, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The senior intelligence officials at the briefing spoke on condition that they not be identified by name, and they declined a request from several reporters, among a large group who attended, that they speak for attribution.
- "A McCain official briefing reporters on condition of anonymity" on September 28th, on why Sarah Palin's train-wreck interview with CBS News (she reads "all of the" newspapers and magazines!) was a coup.
"We have barely scratched the surface" of punitive measures that can be taken, the official said, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity in keeping with White House rules.
"Only Congress can legislate a permanent solution for this," said one official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
The official, and several others, spoke at the briefing on the condition that they not be identified by name.
