Sentence examples for long briefings from inspiring English sources

To give the plan some Wall Street respectability, Mr. Corzine's chief of staff, Bradley I. Abelow, who worked for Mr. Corzine at Goldman Sachs, held two long briefings with reporters, unusual by New Jersey standards.

We'll start with hour long briefings, dividing the 10,000 students into groups of 200 for discussions on the current political climate, hammering home the message that we must pass climate change legislation in 2009.

Mr. Sunstein would not discuss his communications with the president, but Mr. Obama is known to prefer concisely written memos to long oral briefings.

In the nearly four months since then, Mr. Bush has frequently curled his lip at the mention of Ivy League types who tote mental suitcases jammed with facts and figures, readily conceded his limited appetite for long policy briefings or memos, and deflected questions about gaps in his experience with a sunny pledge to assemble and rely on the keenest, most scrupulous advisers he can find.

At last, we have a seasoned journalist, David E. Sanger, stating the obvious: the daily White House press briefings long ago outlived their usefulness.

Have a look back at my coverage from 2001 of President George W. Bush's month-long series of briefings by climate scientists, including James E. Hansen of NASA, for the full Bush cabinet, including Vice President Dick Cheney.

His office was a windowless converted shipping container, and during long days he took briefings and pored over classified assessments.

Content includes briefings, notes, long views written by editorial team, quarterly wrap-ups, weekly updates on news, and curated links.

Ten years on, our relationship remains prickly over the nature of journalism and its relationship to power (plus my long-winded questions during briefings).

If briefings droned too long, his adviser, Karl Rove, told The Los Angeles Times, Bush would point to his computer's solitaire program.

The digital revolution, and the dramatic drop in the cost of publishing that went with it, saw the emergence of passionate, dedicated volunteers who – fed up with the decline in local news coverage – chose to suffer long council meetings and dreary briefings in order to scrutinise those representing them.