Sentence examples for briefs rather from inspiring English sources

As his own lawyer, he is firing briefs rather than bullets.

Challenged about his lack of trial experience, Talley said he had previously argued motions in federal district court on behalf of the state of Alabama, often through written briefs rather than in person.

Another concerned the limited pleasures of reading legal briefs rather than serious books ("I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy").

Our main methodological innovation is to infer Chevron applicability from Supreme Court litigants' briefs rather than our own evaluation of the cases' facts, as in Eskridge and Baer's study.

The "you" is the leaders of the House and Senate judiciary committees, and Barr suggests they'll be briefed rather quickly.

After a brief, rather unlikely, stint as a fashion photographer working under Alexey Brodovitch, an art director at Harper's Bazaar, he hit the road.

That's why they now have special advisers, though that role often involves bag-carrying and media briefing rather than policy development.

If that club was punished it would reasonably give a man with a big brain a big brief rather than cede the points.

If we were expecting doubts and regrets from Tony Blair, there were none, apart from a grudging admission that it would have been better to publish the full intelligence briefing, rather than compose the "dodgy" dossier.

From a stage set up at a roundabout, Jokowi thanked his supporters in a brief, rather flat speech.Prabowo Subianto (pictured left) held his rally at Bung Karno stadium, which seats more than 80,000.

In a brief, rather solemn ceremony, Goh Chok Tong became Singapore's second Prime Minister tonight, taking over from Lee Kuan Yew, the world's longest-serving Prime Minister, who has run Singapore for the last 31 years.