Sentence examples for briefings just from inspiring English sources
Almost every morning, President Bush himself received nerve-jangling briefings just on the latest threats," he told the Senate.
He is expected to receive several classified briefings just a few days after North Korea's most recent nuclear test, in which Washington assessed that the North Koreans detonated a 100-kiloton nuclear bomb in an underground facility.
"This should be not only about protecting us going forward but this is a form of warfare for Vladimir Putin, who is a thug and a bully and has the friends around the globe that we don't want to be friends with," she said, adding, "I've had briefings just this last week that indicate that this is a very serious issue for the American people to understand.
As a result, the memorandum says, limiting the briefings to just eight members of Congress "would appear to be inconsistent with the law".
Gen. David H. Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and says that sitting through some PowerPoint briefings is "just agony," nonetheless likes the program for the display of maps and statistics showing trends.
But, if the Democratic leaders have any sense (and they do), they will ask for documents, not just briefings, be provided to their investigating committees.
"We've been engaged in that consultation all along — as I mentioned, three separate briefings have been held just this week for members of Congress.
I spent two deployments in Afghanistan writing strategic intelligence reports and briefings similar to what WikiLeaks just made public.
She receives regular briefings from the F.B.I. "They just keep telling me they keep hearing that he is doing well," Mrs. Levinson said in a recent telephone interview.
He thinks like a journalist, he's dogged like a journalist he'll go to the source instead of just getting canned briefings.
Surreptitiously, he regularly visited a "drop" across the street from Commerce maintained by Lippo ally Stephens Inc., where -- often just after C.I.A. briefings -- Huang sent and received faxes and packages and made calls he did not want to appear on Commerce records.
