Apart from a brief acknowledgment to reporters that he had come to try to answer the families' questions, he made no public announcements here today.

He listened for the brief acknowledgment, then turned to leave, knowing his message would be passed along until it reached the Tamil chieftain.

Since then, we have heard relatively little about Jobs' progress except for some brief acknowledgments by Cook during two of the company's quarterly financial calls.

Then he turned and, with a brief acknowledgment of the officers on guard, made his way back to the bridge.

His daughters were entertaining friends, and Preston, after this brief acknowledgment of the visitors present, continued upstairs.

The tall young man with the drooping brown mustache grunted a brief acknowledgment.

The war wouldn't allow time for any but the briefest acknowledgment of the tragic changes in their lives.

After a couple of brief acknowledgments, he sent the female guard out of the room.

His first move was to send a brief acknowledgment of Marshall's overnight cable.

At the agreed times he called the mother ship and received brief acknowledgments from Rugon.