Still, Jack L. Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2003-04, argued that an approach of issuing fewer signing statements would "not be terribly consequential" in practice because the executive branch could still override a provision that its legal team later pronounces unconstitutional.
Of course it would be more consequential if all the top lawmakers issued a joint statement supporting whatever action Mr. Obama decides to take.
President Trump summed up a central reason for declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel — one of the most consequential and globally risky decisions of his presidency — in a single statement.
Action is required on empty homes, and on the release of public land for affordable housing schemes, and we will continue to call for the cuts in social housing grant to be plugged by the consequential funding coming to Cardiff Bay after the UK government's autumn statement.
The uncertainty has a "consequential adverse impact on investment levels and transaction volumes", Berkeley said in a statement.
In a statement, Airbus said it was grateful to the European Commission for "taking consequential action" on its behalf but stressed that it was still prepared to seek a negotiated settlement of the dispute.
Shortly after 6 P.M., Senator Marco Rubio released a statement in which he hailed Scalia as "one of the most consequential Americans in our history," and added, "The _next"—_my emphasis added president must nominate a justice who will continue Justice Scalia's unwavering belief in the founding principles that we hold dear".
The acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, said in a statement Saturday that Brown's "steady leadership piloted our nation through a consequential segment of the Cold War.
The fact that the normally buttoned-up special counsel's office felt compelled to issue a statement suggests that the story's conclusions were too baldly stated and too consequential to stay unchallenged.
Arguably the two most consequential decisions policymakers need to make when designing a carbon tax are missing from this statement - the annual tax rates and specific decisions about which other policies to add, change or eliminate upon the implementation of a carbon tax.
In other places there are consequential typographical errors, such as in the abstract on the back cover and within the statement of a central thesis in the final chapter (177).
