Sentence examples for ceremonial statement from inspiring English sources

Lummi tribal leaders recently burned a mock million-dollar check in a ceremonial statement that money could never buy their cooperation.

Theirs was a largely ceremonial statement, as the bill will ultimately be replaced with something more closely resembling the Schumer-Coburn compromise.

At the ceremonial signing of the "vision statement," Mr. Vaypayee warned that India had limited tolerance for the violence in Kashmir, which it accuses Pakistan of masterminding.

Mr. Arafat made his statement at the ceremonial lighting of an Olympic torch for the Palestinians, held at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Though the statement is chiefly ceremonial -- it does not call for any government action to be taken against the Sudanese government -- the three said it was to send a message to President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan that the next American president will continue to sound an alarm on Darfur.

Although Obama announced an end to the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan in December 2014, the statement appeared largely ceremonial as troops were still authorized to conduct dangerous counterterrorism missions.

The story concluded, "Some of his coworkers believe that Pham committed suicide to make a statement, and that he did it in a ceremonial fashion in keeping with his culture, taking off his shoes and neatly placing them to one side before jumping".

The academy had suggested in a policy statement that doctors be given permission to perform a ceremonial pinprick or nick on girls if it would keep their families from sending them overseas for the full circumcision.

Within minutes of the news breaking, 10 Downing Street released a statement confirming that the former prime minister would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honours.

The statement said the horse, from a police stable in London used for ceremonial and crowd-control duties, had been lent to Ms. Brooks in 2008 when it had reached retirement, and then "rehoused with a police officer" in rural Norfolk County in 2010.

Before this statement was made, I was prepared to present this week's review as a ceremonial farewell to the sort of British picture that had seemed to be getting the official kiss of death.