But based on their statements on the tape, he and his associates never imagined that their attacks on the World Trade Center complex would bring down both towers.
The concern that the statements be true, not just accurate, he said, is why the agency "requires companies and the agency to look at all the data and base their statements not on whether something is technically accurate but whether it is supported by the weight of the evidence".
Since then, investors who have held onto shares they owned, even if they, too, based their decision on erroneous financial statements, have been out of luck.
Based on their statements to the police, Dick and Williams might seem an odd pair of accomplices.
Based on their statements and positions, it's obvious which of the current major party candidates will support the clean-energy aspirations of the majority of Americans - Democratic, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, Green, or other.
Based on their statement, it may well have come as a shock to Survation, too.
As Gallup reports, "32percentt of Americans are nonreligious, based on their statement that religion is not an important part of their daily life and that they seldom or never attend religious services".
He said he based his statements on Bosnian Serb documents seized in a raid.
Their whole image of their net worth is based on one statement from one investment manager.
I've been pretty clear based on my statements on the floor that what we did was not accurately or fairly represented in those statements".
