Sentence examples for which is brief from inspiring English sources

After being granted asylum in the United States, several Nigerians sued the parent companies under the 1789 law, the Alien Tort Statute, which is brief and cryptic.

For one brief, shining moment -- actually four days, which is brief enough -- the New York Philharmonic will put on semistaged concert performances of the Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot" at Avery Fisher Hall, and the cast is (mostly) set.

This is a standard conversation, like the classic opening moves of a chess game, where what matters, much more than what one says (which is brief and obvious), is the tone in which one says it.

In the past 30 years, the NHS has come to rely increasingly heavily on cognitive and behavioural therapy, which is brief and (more importantly) good at proving its own effectiveness.

While we conducted a relatively large number of interviews, we only spent several days doing observations of obstetric practices, which is brief compared to traditional standards.

Alternatives to these well standardised and expensive measures include the Tester's Rating of Child Behavior [ 74], and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [ 75], which is brief, can be freely downloaded, and is applied in many clinical and research settings due to its strong psychometric properties.

The maps are probably copies; the text, which is briefer with each successive map, is mostly rote repetition of basic facts with only a few juicy details thrown in; but the scrolls -- even as the text on them becomes shorter and drier -- become elaborate torn affairs, more evocative of pirate treasure maps and belying the basic facts recounted on them.

It is published in a 12 session format [ 25] which is briefer than other variants of behavioral activation which often exceed 20 sessions [ 26] and focuses on strategies to engender structured engagement in healthy and positive values-based behaviors [ 27- 29].

Not much of that mood was communicated during this show, which was brief but slow moving.

The Pentagon said the sailors had not been harmed in any way during their "detention, which was brief".

For example, panic disorder is characterized by the occurrence of panic attacks, which are brief periods of intense anxiety.