The phrase "accepted the statement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating that someone has agreed to or acknowledged the validity of a particular statement or claim.
Example: "After reviewing the evidence, the committee accepted the statement as true."
Alternatives: "acknowledged the statement" or "endorsed the statement."
It seems that Burns Mantles yearbook was taken as the authority in this matter and that it led everybody astray through having accepted the statement of a press agent some years ago that "Abie" had had 2,532 Broadway performances.
Last night a Ukip spokesman said that, although it accepted the statement had been circulated, Farage had not "written or signed" it and was unaware that it ever existed.
Speaking a day after a border clash set off a fresh round of claims and counterclaims between the countries, Mr. Armitage said he accepted the statement by Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that he was not aiding Islamic militants who were still crossing from Pakistan into Indian-held Kashmir.
The corporation later accepted the statement was incorrect and that it had not spoken to Eccleston before releasing it.
c The religiosity index, responders received +1 if they agreed with the idea that faith in God is necessary for morality, +1 if they accepted the statement that religion is very important in their lives, and +1 if they said they pray daily; Kruskal Wallis one-way ANOVA on ranks, H = 21.734, df = 2, P ≤ 0.001.
Analysis revealed there to be ten BEL Survey statements (2, 3, 5, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 23) in which the mean change in the number of misconceptions held by students whose teachers accepted the statement misconception was greater than that for students of teachers who rejected the statement misconception, producing a mean p =.36 (Table 9).
Despite evidence that the shells had been planted as part of a frame-up, investigators accepted the statements of the mayor and the white citizens.
The district court refused to sustain the contention that no use was made of the warrant and accepted the statements that O'Brien claimed to have warrants for the arrests and searches.
They accepted the statements made about the product at face value - statements that were not honestly represented on the labels of at least some of the products.
