Sentence examples for briefs it from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court receives briefs; it does not file them.

But he said the Labor Department may have acted rashly in calling for the payment of overtime in the supporting briefs it filed.

Used since the 13th century as a seal for private letters and since the 15th century for papal briefs, it is one of two papal seals, the other being the leaden bull (bulla).

(More recent support for Bell's claim about "interest convergence": when, just a year ago, the Supreme Court stopped short of invalidating all affirmative-action plans, it referred to briefs it had received from businesses and former military leaders arguing that affirmative action was necessary for both corporate success and national defense).

No self-respecting maker of soft erotica would countenance such shots, and, as for the matching dialogue ("Something just came up," Samantha murmurs over the phone, as her boyfriend stands beside her in bulging briefs), it sounds like a flaccid aside from 007.

While the academy officials would not discuss the Michigan case, several outside legal experts argue that the administration's legal theories in briefs it filed with the Supreme Court in the case raise serious questions about the procedures at the elite training grounds for future military leaders at West Point, Annapolis and Colorado Springs.

In its own Supreme Court brief, it called such lapses lamentable.

In brief, it's absolute rubbish".

Though the fighting was brief, it was bloody.

That was his brief; it became his obsession.

"In brief, it is a prison sentence," he said.