The phrase "agreeing to the statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating consent or acceptance of a particular assertion or claim.
Example: "After careful consideration, I find myself agreeing to the statement presented by the committee."
Alternatives: "consenting to the statement" or "accepting the statement".
No one agreeing to the statement 'I have a lot of sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria' was in any doubt which fighters we meant.
Many residents of those countries believe that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) should be criminalised, with 45% of respondents in Africa agreeing to the statement that "being LGBTI should be considered a crime".
The vertical line in Fig. 4 - dividing respondents' answers of those (strongly) agreeing to the statement from those (strongly) disagreeing or being undecided towards the statement - helps to identify respondents consent again.
Expectations of RTW was divided into "positive expectations" (agreeing to the statement) and "none or negative expectations" (no opinion or disagreeing to the statement), and sleep problems due to pain was divided into "seldom or never" and "sometimes, often or all the time".
Numbers and percentages strongly agreeing or agreeing to the statements regarding how decisions for authorship on papers arising from the research should be decided.
The part of the respondents agreeing to the statements was calculated as number of respondents answering point 4 6 on the six-point scale divided by all respondents.
Russia and China, which had used their vetoes on the council to block efforts to adopt a resolution on the Syrian conflict, agreed to the statement.
Only 67% agreed to the statement "I am treated with respect", down from 71% the previous year, which itself missed the internal ambition.
While 20% of young people polled agreed to the statement that they were "falling apart" emotionally on a regular basis, the figure increases to 33% among unemployed young people.
We examined the percentage of participants who responded 'completely agree' to the statement (see Figure 1).
About every fourth agrees to the statement that electric cars will not help to solve environmental problems.
