Sentence examples for broad statements and from inspiring English sources

The court applied time-honored interpretive rules: it said new statutory language takes precedence over older phrases, specific clauses carry more weight than broad statements and ambiguous laws must be read so that no part becomes meaningless.

At the U.N., Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin criticized those he said were "trying to prejudge the outcome [of an investigation] with broad statements and insinuations" and accused the Ukrainian government of failing to warn international aviation to avoid the conflict area.

It does slick press events in which it speaks in broad statements and visions and so on.

Concomitant to this, of course, the risk was taken of being criticized by members of the scientific community for certain broad statements and potentially negative reactions by the public.

Overly broad statements and fantastical claims of cover ups serve only to poison the well for anyone interested in advancing any subsequent suggestion for research or review of policies.

That may seem like a broad statement, and Nelson understands that some may doubt her.

That seemed almost laughable to me if it wasn't so condescending, something confirmed by a spokesman for the Down's Syndrome Association: "It would be unwise and incorrect to make broad statements like that, and I would disagree with the idea that people with Down's Syndrome can't lie".

It's hard to understand the kind of arrogance that would lead to a person with no expertise in the field drawing this kind of literature together to make broad statements about autism, and feeling so confident about it that they would be willing to spark stories about it in the national press.

The reactionary right is limbering up for a fresh frolic on multiculturalism, wheeling out Pauline Hanson as their Trojan horse, trolling the left by deriding broad statements of tolerance and gestures of inclusion as virtue signalling or indulgent forays into identity politics – and the pro-globalisation left is shaping up to gratify their opponents by being serially outraged, by taking the bait.

Barnes' narrator is extremely good at making broad statements about memory and aging without them seeming portentous or out of place.

Drawing on an extensive array of published and archival resources, McWhirter examines how music influenced the popular culture surrounding and supporting the war and makes broad statements about the place Civil War music in American society, north and south (and with attention to the music of African Americans).