Coakley characterized the statements as not being confessions requiring voluntary conditions but merely "admissions" that had no such requirement.
She characterized the statements of opposition from both Lincoln and key Republican Sen. Arlen Specter as "little bumps in the road" and noted that both are open to supporting a modified bill.
Mr. Eliades stopped short of characterizing the statement as a confession, and a lawyer for Mr. Furlow, Kelly Daniels, said she would challenge the statement because her client had provided it without the benefit of legal counsel.
Mr. Cronan cited a 22-page document detailing his statements but did not characterize the statements, which were not made public.
As for characterizing the statements made by suspects as "hearsay," Berger said that, for the most part, the men in custody were talking about meetings in which they were not participants.
It is well and good to characterize the statements by Vladimir V. Putin about the "encirclement" of Russia by NATO as "nonsense" because NATO is a force for democracy, but what if Mr. Putin believes what he says?
The person would not characterize the statements' nature or value but said that whenever agents and detectives had a chance to talk to someone like Mr. Abu Ghaith, it was useful.
In this study, we have characterized the types of statements upper-level undergraduate biology students make when engaged in discussions of challenging conceptual clicker questions and have explored the relationship of these statements to the outcome of the discussions and whether explicit instructor cues affect the amount and kind of reasoning students use when given the opportunity to discuss.
"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.
The joint statement characterized the agreement as a "humanitarian gesture".
He also characterized the pirates, in a statement, as "a ragtag terrorism unit".
