Sentence examples for routine brief from inspiring English sources

This study illustrates the wide range of presentations of heavy drinkers, the need for a high level of alertness to the possibility of alcohol problems, and for a routine brief alcohol history.

The Marmot Review's second recommendation was titled Empowering people: securing community solutions and called for "community engagement practices to move beyond what are often routine, brief consultations, to involving individuals in partnerships to define problems and develop local solutions to address those problems" [ 7].

Gen. Larry G. Smith accosted her in her Pentagon office after a routine briefing.

Gen. Metin Gürak, a spokesman for the Turkish General Staff, at a routine briefing for reporters in Ankara.

She guides us through intimidating, Kafkaesque visits to a doctor who "reminded me of Helmut Kohl attending impatiently to a routine briefing".

The decision to retain Mr. Tenet was not formally announced by the president-elect or anyone else; instead, Ari Fleischer, the press spokesman, revealed it in response to a reporter's question at a routine briefing earlier this week.

A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry responded at a routine briefing, saying the comments were "unreasonable" and that "China's using armed force to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity is totally different".

The nation's protectors didn't seem to be taking their duties very seriously, whether it was Bush joking about how "that's some bad pilot" 15 minutes after the first attack, or Rumsfeld not bothering to leave a routine briefing session even after the second plane had hit the towers.

The disclosure last summer came as part of a routine briefing of the investigations that the inspector general would be conducting in the coming year, and he did not tell the officials of his conclusions that the targeting had been improper, he said.

The find was announced by Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein amid a routine briefing in Kuala Lumpur.

Chinese officials did not comment on the incident when questioned during a routine briefing, but re-asserted China's claim to the waters.