Sentence examples for without briefing from inspiring English sources

This was the sort of thing the president of the Ford Foundation must be able to do without briefing.

Mr. Wu said it was very rare, but not unheard of, for the president and his staff to pursue a policy toward China without briefing him.

As a fastidious scientist, who never takes a major decision without briefing herself to the hilt, Angela Merkel was inspecting the exact location of the conflict before pronouncing what role Germany would play.

Four days after the head of British Gas received a torrent of abuse on Twitter as he answered questions about the company's latest price rise, so Europe's biggest budget airline put up its chief executive to field questions today – apparently without briefing him.

The number of nonroutine events (ie, situations that, if not corrected, might lead to patient harm) observed in the 130 surgeries conducted without briefing was compared with the number of events in 102 surgeries in which briefing was conducted.

Instead, in one of the biggest displays of Cabinet-level incompetence I can remember, Salazar pushed out Birnbaum the morning of a major Obama press conference without briefing the president.

"The lower court's refusal to follow Citizens United is such an obvious, blatant disregard of its duty to follow this Court's decisions that summary reversal" - that is, upending the lower court's judgment without full briefing and oral argument, and sometimes without an opinion - "is proper".

The court acted quickly -- and, some critics said, rashly -- in intervening in cases without full briefing and argument.

Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, dissented, saying the majority should not have decided the two questions in summary fashion without full briefing and argument.

Nine times so far this year, the court has issued an unsigned opinion ruling on the merits of a dispute without full briefing or oral argument.

Those contracts can be published for all-comers to take on and, without any briefing beyond the targets' names and appearance, are usually hard to enact.