Sentence examples for briefings provided from inspiring English sources

Now lawmakers from both parties are debating whether those members-only briefings provided a sufficient basis for oversight of an activity that is only now coming under intense Congressional scrutiny.

It is no secret that when a pope delivers an address to a group of Catholic bishops he draws upon briefings provided by the local hierarchy and his papal nuncio for the country in question.

But in interviews, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Graham and aides to Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Reid all said they understood that while the briefings provided by Mr. Cheney might have been accompanied by charts, they did not constitute written reports.

(see 3.32pm) Other ministers accepted what they were told in a series of special briefings provided by John Scarlett, but Cook - perhaps because, as a former foreign secretary, he was used to dealing with MI6, was more sceptical.

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month, Mr. Goss turned aside questions about the detention program on grounds that the C.I.A. had already answered them, through the briefings provided to the leaders of the intelligence panel.

Before the news accounts of the program were published this weekend, to the extent that the Pentagon had informed Congress at all about the effort, it did so in briefings provided to committee staff members, including sessions held earlier this month, Congressional officials said.

Background briefings provide reporters with additional context when other officials are speaking on the record, Mr. McClellan said.

President Bush and other senior administration officials have argued that the briefings they provided fulfilled that legal requirement.

Morrison has also failed to confirm if the weekly operational briefings he provided to the press will continue in 2014.

But while the media were invited to cover the event, they were given only limited information; fuller briefings were provided to a mock news operation.

A spokesman for U.S.A. Swimming declined at the news conference to specify what instructions those briefings had provided but noted that they had included tips on transportation in Rio.