The phrase "a fine statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express approval or admiration for a particular statement or remark made by someone.
Example: "After hearing his thoughts on the matter, I must say that was a fine statement that truly captured the essence of the issue."
Alternatives: "an excellent remark" or "a great assertion".
The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement.
It is one of those phrases, administration officials say, that remain a fine statement of national goals.
The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement but you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts.
"I'm not sure I know what that means," he says, before conceding, "That's a fine statement, you know?" Affable despite his elusiveness, Lynch seems less to be stonewalling than striving to verbalize daunting concepts with a vocabulary that might politely be termed basic.
The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts," Trump argued.
"The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement," he said, later adding that it was "excellent".
When Al Gore turned to Bill Bradley early in this week's debate and said, "I think that's a very fine statement," you knew Mr. Bradley was flirting with the single digits.
While "improving the wellbeing and life opportunities of teenage girls" is a fine mission statement, it does not meet the criterion for a well-defined goal: It is too vague for anyone, including the organization's CEO and board, to know whether and to what extent the goal was achieved.
The Casa Cook website and brochures proclaim "Mi casa es su casa" repeatedly – a fine mission statement, but one that does feel slightly at odds with the strict instruction, given at check-in, not to use the throws hung from the bedroom walls – "They are DECORATIVE!" However, the throws are for sale at the you know where, of course.
I am responding to the fine statement (Sam Hall Kaplan article, Jan . 27 about Library Square's controversy and your well-phrased description of the pedway debate.
Still, within its own slightly soupy terms, these were fine statements of the music.
