Sentence examples for poorly briefed from inspiring English sources

Obama had been poorly briefed.

They arrived so poorly briefed, they expected to be operating in flat terrain, not mountains.

Asked when, he (poorly briefed, as we now know) fumbled: "Immediately".

He speaks in the halting fashion of a poorly briefed diplomat.

As the bureaucratic intrigue continues, Ms. Tanaka has complained about being reduced to a figurehead, getting information late and going into meetings poorly briefed or missing meetings entirely.

Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, said he was "amazed" that the home secretary had been so poorly briefed on the status of Mohamed's passport, adding there were only eight people on TPIMs in the UK and the government ought to know every detail about them.

Sandia theorized that the overram may have occurred due to inadequate training of some members of the center gun crew; a poorly conceived, briefed, and executed firing plan that contributed to confusion; and possibly a malfunction of the rammer.

"No one is despondent, no one thinks this went poorly," said one person briefed on Tuesday's events who asked not to be identified revealing private conversations.

He said: "I am amazed that Home Office officials should have briefed the home secretary so poorly on such an important issue.

At a press conference, a poorly-briefed GDR government spokesman answered a journalist's question – seeming to imply that every citizen was free to travel to the West with immediate effect.

With the same gusto with which he puts poorly-briefed Ministers to the sword, he described it as a "balls-up".