Far from a brief flare-up, the political battle over crime, punishment and ethnicity has only intensified since.
His Guardian blog - Earth Insight - was about the link between the environment and geopolitics, but we took the decision to end the blog when a number of his posts on a range of subjects strayed too far from this brief.
What have you learned so far from your brief political career?
Far from it: the brief offers a road map for finding the law unconstitutional, but by a different route from the one the appeals court took.
Tacos and tequila were far from his training and brief.
The settlement talks are at an early stage, and the two sides are far from any agreement, people briefed on the case said.
Otherwise, jowls, cheeks and temples were most assuredly safe at this brief show, far from Yelawolf's hometown of Gadsden, Ala., or from Atlanta, the closest rap mecca, which has lately embraced him.
Consistent with the values of historic preservation, not to mention the theme of freedom, I propose reconstructing a project that stood not far from ground zero for a brief time in the summer of 1984.
It was far from spectacular, and for a brief moment inside the final furlong, it seemed that Makahiki might not find enough to overhaul Midterm, who was running for the first time since finishing only fifth when favourite for the Dante Stakes at York in May.
Although the discussion and presentation of China is far from thorough, the book offers brief insights and satisfies our appetites for page-turning tales.
