Sentence examples for briefings changed from inspiring English sources

Eight days after the first explosion on the rig, which left 11 workers missing and presumed dead, the tenor of the response team's briefings changed abruptly Wednesday night with a hastily called news conference to announce that the rate of the spill was estimated to be 5,000 barrels a day, or more than 200,000 gallons — five times the previous estimate.

But the point of the briefings has changed since Truman first ordered them.

Mr Corbyn's spokesman emerges to say MPs will be given a free vote but Labour's policy on air strikes will not be changed – contrary to previous briefings.

Taking its name from the morning intercom briefings at brokerage houses, "Squawk Box" changed the way business news was reported: not as dry, arcane number-crunching -- though that, too -- but as entertainment.

The growth of specialist reporters across Fleet Street changed the nature of ministerial press briefings.

Hartshorn, who receives regular intelligence briefings on potential causes of civil unrest, said the mood at some demonstrations had changed recently, with activists increasingly "intent on coming on to the streets to create public disorder".

Ferguson always held his media briefings on a Friday lunchtime and when we turned up for this one, maybe an hour or so after Keane's sacking, there was no hint whatsoever something monumental had just changed.

"The Iraq problem has changed a lot since the last Bush administration left office," said a government official who will continue to work in the new Bush administration and has been involved in preliminary briefings on Iraq.

Conceivably some views about the scope and propriety of the programs could change after closed briefings on the N.S.A. programs planned for House members on Tuesday and senators on Thursday.

A White House spokeswoman said Wednesday night that the expanded briefings Wednesday and Thursday did not change the "principle" embraced by the president and vice president.

Mr Barker admitted he sometimes struggled to understand the complex briefings on climate change given to him by departmental scientists.