In 1885 a conference of Reform rabbis formulated what was then the most comprehensive statement of Reform philosophy in the so-called Pittsburgh Platform.
This is the most comprehensive statement of Gould's Darwinian revisionism, a revisionism that began in graduate school when he and fellow student Niles Eldredge developed their critique of one of Darwin's central theses, that of gradual evolutionary change.
"I don't see a comprehensive statement of Republican policy," said Murray L. Weidenbaum, who was chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first two years of the Reagan administration.
In the various communities that claim to be part of historic Christianity, the concise and comprehensive statement of Christian doctrine that is most widely recognized is the Nicene Creed.
His immense adaptation of Schiller's Don Carlos, comparatively unsuccessful in his lifetime, is now regarded my many as the most comprehensive statement of his political concerns, though nothing in Verdi's humanism is such that he is able to extend to the tyrannical figure of Philip IV of Spain the same compassion he extends to his effective victims.
These habits, as well as producing this collection, led Solomon to perhaps the most comprehensive statement of journalistic empathy by any contemporary writer – his last, monumental book, Far from the Tree, which examined extremes of physical and psychological difference in the context of families.
"We are still looking for an opportunity to put down a comprehensive statement of what the U.S. stands for," he said, referring to Mr. Bush's pledges to work for a settlement that would establish both a Palestinian state and secure borders for Israel.
Secretary Powell said in the interview that the speech would be "a comprehensive statement of what the United States stands for," adding that it would build on President Bush's address to the General Assembly on Saturday, in which he said clearly that the state of Palestine should be created.
The lawyer, Mark Lewis, said in an interview Friday that the "claim has been issued," and that he would soon be filing a comprehensive statement of case against the London newspaper, also part of Mr. Murdoch's British newspaper group, News International.
