Sentence examples for briefings some from inspiring English sources

The committee claims its already held more than 100 such briefings, some of which are classified.

And one of the remarkable aspects of the last five years of the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition is that leaks have been relatively rare – even if there have been briefings and counter briefings, some licensed and some less so.

"I sometimes struggle to understand exactly, certainly in a concise way, in the briefings some of the very complex issues that scientific colleagues will try and get over so for the general public who are maybe just getting glancing parts of these messages from TV or the radio and newspapers it can be doubly difficult".

By recording transparent, careful accounts of the four wives who survived — Maryam, Amal, and two older Saudi wives of bin Laden who lived more briefly in Abbottabad — the commission has delivered to the historical record illuminating testimony that had previously leaked out only through anonymous intelligence briefings, some of them plainly designed to spin the facts.

Yet long before "waterboarding" entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.

In interviews and briefings this week, some of the generals pulled back from recent suggestions, some by the same officers, that positive trends in Iraq could allow a major drawdown in the 138,000 American troops late this year or early in 2006.

The classified intelligence briefings -- some held in Washington for foreign ministers and foreign leaders as they visited in recent months, others in foreign capitals -- have been part of a lobbying effort to secure votes for the sanctions, the fourth round since 2006.

White House aides held political briefings for some of the administration's foreign diplomats.

Instead, officials from the Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have provided closed-door briefings for some lawmakers.

These are being accompanied by a drip feed of poisonous briefings, as some ministers try to promote themselves and their ambitions at the expense of rivals they seek to thwart or damage.

The House Intelligence Committee said last week that it would seek limited briefings for some panel members so that they could weigh changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but the Republican leaders of the House committee stopped far short of proposing the kind of continuing oversight and rules changes that the Senate committee has settled on.