But he stopped short of characterizing his statement as an offer of a cease-fire.
But no source could give us the volume, tone, facial expression, or contextual nuance that characterized his actual statement.
I, too, wish that Colin L. Powell's cautionary view had prevailed (editorial, April 20), but it is unfair to characterize his purported actions and statements in the path to war as politically motivated ambivalence or as self-serving behavior just because he was unable to sway the hard-line hawks.
Mr. Obama, who ended the war in Iraq and is moving to do the same in Afghanistan, has expressed reluctance to enter a new military conflict and characterized statements by his Republican adversaries as hawkish.
Immediately after Mr. Romney's speech here, Ms. Feinstein backed away from her comments and said she was "disappointed" in how Mr. Romney had characterized her statement.
Bell, however, thought that his telling Santana that "he cares about her and doesn't want her to hold her feelings for women in anymore" was "one of the most touching scenes of the series", though Kubicek characterized Finn's statement that he cared for her because Santana "was his first" as creepy.
In a press release, Graves characterized Nielsen's statement as "a positive step forward for an America First cyber policy".
"We understand the American people have concerns as the result of the program's disclosure, and the inaccurate and reckless way it has been characterized," said the statement by senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss, and represenatives Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger.
And Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, characterized Kelly's statement as "irresponsible and dangerous".
