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The phrase "a hard statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a statement that is difficult to accept, understand, or deal with.
Example: "The report contained a hard statement about the company's financial struggles that left many employees feeling uneasy."
Alternatives: "a tough statement" or "a difficult statement".
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In the case of Pope John Paul II, that is not merely a platitude; it is a hard statement of fact.
On the business and income side of things, he stated that if Android were to break off of Google right now, it'd be profitable, though that's kind of a hard statement to justify.
Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee chair, has previously said it would be "suicide" for Trump to fire Mueller, and that's a hard statement to walk back.
It's a hard statement to prove at a time when a massive graft scandal perhaps the biggest since the fall of Gen. Suharto is currently making its way through the legal system.
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But now that's a harder statement to make about the Big 2.5, with GM especially going on offense against its European and Japanese competitors.
Let me make one other statement, which is a much harder statement to justify.
The announcement is a hard-line statement of authority that also sounds oddly like an admission of incompetence.
In a hard-hitting statement, Cable said the mining giant had "consistently failed to act", and vowed to take up the issue with chairman Tony Hayward urgently.
In a hard-hitting statement, United left the FA in no doubt as to their feelings over Evra who was disciplined for his part in a brawl with the Chelsea groundsman Sam Bethell in April.
In the meantime she received the full support of her fellow Premier League doctors who broke with precedent to release a hard-hitting statement in support of the Gibraltar-born Chelsea doctor.
In a hard-hitting statement after a meeting in Moscow, the UN, the EU, Russia and the US condemned Israel's "unilateral" construction plans and said the status of Jerusalem could only be resolved through negotiations between both parties.
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