It was a bold, challenging statement.
There is a story here of the benefits of proper funding and investment, a challenging mission statement, massively increased security and status for the players, increased participation levels and therefore more competition for places, and, crucially, a top flight academy and performance programme.
Over the years, rock has frequently reduced experimental jazz to a kind of dilettantish signifier: few things say "I consider myself to be a very important artist unleashing a challenging musical statement, I demand you take me seriously" quite like a burst of skronking free brass dropped in the middle of a track.
An advertisement for Lanson champagne, which ends with the challenging statement, "Can you afford it?" causes the writer to ask this question of a number of people at various times.
The New Yorker, March 28 , 1959P. 28 An advertisement for Lanson champagne, which ends with the challenging statement, "Can you afford it?" causes the writer to ask this question of a number of people at various times.
Originally self-released in March of this year then reissued on vinyl by Planet Mu earlier this month PHOENIXXX is the most searing and challenging statement from WWWINGS thus far.
Glemp's situation was made even worse because, while the pope on his world stage was free to make more heroic and challenging statements about Poland, Glemp, being nearer the Polish authorities, was cast in a more prudent role.
MOSCOW — Almost exactly three years after the brief war between Russia and Georgia, Washington and Moscow are trading challenging statements over its unresolved legacy, in another sign that the "reset" of relations between the two cold war enemies is coming under pressure.
Thom Browne says in the accompanying catalog's preface that "Rebellion comes from being perfectly comfortable doing my own thing and having the drive to make challenging statements in men's wear".
In the final paper within this theme, author Iona Heath opens with the challenging and thought-provoking statement that quality is a contemporary catchword "that seldom has real substance and all too often become a slogan for the exercise of power" [ 27].
