But on Tuesday the agency issued a more restrained statement.
Agnew's first reaction was a relatively restrained statement: "I am under investigation for possible violations of the criminal statutes," he said, adding, "I am innocent of any wrongdoing".
Because new stories are being put up constantly, and because there's usually no obvious reason why the market is rising or falling as much as it is, the headlines end up being an oddly restrained statement of the obvious.
Since the EU had issued a joint, and more restrained, statement on Iraq only a few days earlier, this was seen as treachery in Paris and Berlin.Yet the move to support America was itself a response to events that seemed, to others, to be aimed at sabotaging the effort to put pressure on Iraq.
In a terse and uncharacteristically restrained statement on Facebook, she warned against "racist instrumentalization of this affair" but also said that the court should decide "if the facts are true and if Henda Ayari is honest in her approach".
As columns of vehicles crossed the border and troops arrived to happy homecomings last week, Mr. Obama released a restrained written statement and made a one-sentence reference at a pair of fund-raisers.
"It is a restrained fashion statement: the black body, the beautiful red dot that says 'Leica,' " said Edward Earle, the curator of collections at the International Center of Photography in New York.
The demand was restated in blunt terms today by Mr. Sattar, the foreign minister, who ended a week of restrained statements by his government in telling a news conference that the alliance's hold on Kabul was unacceptable to Pakistan.
The announcement from AIPAC, the most influential pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., came after over a year of relatively restrained statements from the organization.
This might seem like an obvious statement, but it bears repeating, given how the three-hour "television event" is being pitched to viewers: as a restrained Biblical history, suitable for believers and non-believers alike.
She gave a restrained yawn.
