Sentence examples for service brief from inspiring English sources

In 1955, when Anthony Eden succeeded Winston Churchill, a civil service brief concluded that it was time for a change.

The fact that the BBC does the popular ratings-chasing things as well as the edifying things has always been a key part of the public service brief.

So the government wants a "root and branch" review to decide whether the BBC has "been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief" (BBC faces 'root and branch' review of its size and remit, 13 July).

"The Egyptian intelligence service briefed us that he was in a hospital in Sanaa," the person told me.

That leaves the big public service briefs, such as health and education, as the most plausible possibilities.

Last time round, the civil service briefed political editors extensively in the hope that they might keep a confused public informed, but it wasn't to be.

The postal workers' union, citing information it got in a US postal service briefing, said the letters bore a Shreveport, Louisiana, postmark.

But Ellam is the face of official civil service briefing which Brown wants us to think is the post-Blair, anti-spin fresh start; McBride is the hidden face of spinning as usual.

Yet a civil service briefing note in the same year for Geoff Hoon – then the UK defence secretary – before talks with his US counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses the need for "Level playing field: big contracts to rebuild Iraq.

Nominated for the financial services brief, Sven Giegold of the Greens likened Mr Hill's nomination to letting a "fox guard the henhouse".

I learned these things not through a civil-service briefing but though my own life.