Sentence examples for fragmentary reports from inspiring English sources

When war broke out between Iran and Iraq in 1980, he compiled and rewrote fragmentary reports that he gleaned from news agencies and foreign publications and analyzed satellite photos of trench fortifications on either side.

— Geoffrey Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) 26 Mar 13 But other watchers of the Supreme Court offered words of caution about drawing too many conclusions from fragmentary reports on the oral arguments.

— SARAH WHEATON According to the first fragmentary reports from inside the courtroom, some of the justices have asked why the Obama administration chose not to defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that is at issue.

Television talk shows have obsessed over fragmentary reports of conversations between Brotherhood leaders and the ruling generals, mainly a face-to-face meeting last weekend between the Brotherhood's parliamentary leader, Saad el-Katatni, and Gen. Sami Hafez Enan.

But it would seem unlikely, certainly given these early and fragmentary reports of the new Pope's positions, that the Catholic Church would soften even a little bit on the issue of homosexuality, or the important marriage-equality issues to be argued at the Supreme Court in two weeks.

Ten days ago, White House officials said they had fragmentary reports that Mr. bin Laden was still alive, and moving about somewhere along the mountain range straddling the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that runs from Tora Bora south past Khost toward Kandahar.

Its report said, "Although there is some fragmentary reporting alleging that Bin Ladin may have been an investor, or even had an operational role, in drug trafficking before 9/11, this intelligence cannot be substantiated and the sourcing is probably suspect".

The profile added that fragmentary reporting links al-Shamiri to fighting in Bosnia in 1995, and he told interrogators that he fought in Yemen's civil war in 1996 and in Afghanistan for the Taliban from 2000 to 2001 – including against the Northern Alliance and US forces – before his capture near Mazar-e-Sharif Mazar-e-Sharif Mazar-e-Sharif

Not only did we not have people on the ground in 1998 -- after 1998, when the inspectors left; but we relied, when they had left, too much on the fragmentary reporting from years before, from the early 90's, from the post-Iran-Iraq war situation, and were never able to pin anything down.

We have instead a fragmentary report indicating directions in which al-Kindî was headed, and probable sources with which he had some acquaintance.

A moment later, CBS anchor Walter Cronkite comes on to announce the first fragmentary report of the shooting in Dallas.