Sentence examples for terse on from inspiring English sources

The reader spends relatively little time in the building itself, however, since the historical record is terse on what its occupants ate from day to day.

Moyes can be more brittle and terse on those occasions, but he has much more of a common touch with the people around football - staff, fans and the press.

Petrobras confirmed Foster's departure in a terse one-line statement on Wednesday announcing a meeting of the board of directors on Friday "due to the resignation of the president [chief executive] and the five directors".

And delivery of such a hugely significant political stroke in a terse one line statement on the official news agency and broadcast news serves to underline how little either the Chinese public or the world at large are permitted to know about the internal politics of the world's second-largest economy.

Immediately after the play, however, Hamels barked a terse "Come on!" at Howard.

She can write terse head-on confrontations, biblical invocations of great power ("Behold the light of despair/the glare of anguish/And ye shall be driven to darkness") and soliloquies that evoke T. S. Eliot.

JEANINE F. PIRRO, normally an eager friend of the multiple microphones and bright lights of press conferences, released only a terse statement on this one.

The Council on Competitiveness, an influential group of American company bosses, university presidents and labour leaders, issued a terse report on the matter on November 11th and demanded that Barack Obama "take bold action to recapture America's competitiveness" in his first 100 days in office.

Next to the tiny, terse screens on most phones, this one looks like the Times Square Jumbotron.

But the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, with timing that appeared aimed at heading off bigger crowds, announced Mr. Shafiq's resignation on Thursday with three terse lines on its Facebook page.

It elaborated at length on the party's first, terse announcement on November 12th that market forces would henceforth play a "decisive" role in shaping the economy (a conceptual breakthrough that had previously eluded the party, notwithstanding its long-standing embrace of capitalism).