Recently, Anglo-American courts seem to be increasingly willing to allow the delivery of a writing embodying a statement of the gift to substitute for the delivery of the thing itself.
Obama's reelection strategy has embodied a statement he made about the McCain campaign in 2008, "if you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone to run from".
But the team's very identity and its hope for playoff success is perhaps best embodied by J. R. Smith, a statement that begs to be followed with "for better or worse".
The proverb that expresses in terse form a statement embodying observations about the nature of life or about wise or unwise conduct may be so much an oral tradition as to serve in some preliterate societies as a sanction for decisions and may even be employed as lawyers employ court precedents.
Making pickles is a statement of settlement, it embodies the idea of a future of planning and looking forward: in six months, we will be here, in the same place.
Rod Stewart, who paid tribute to the musician in a statement, said that McLagan embodied "the true spirit of the Faces".
"Derek Jeter embodies everything the Yankees are about," he said in a statement released by the team.
UAE attorney general, Salim Saeed Kubaish, said in a statement that Sheikh Khalifa's pardon "embodies a humanitarian touch which will give the released inmates the opportunity to reunite with their families in the Holy Month of Ramadan".
In a statement, MSNBC said that Williams' story "embodies the very same American ideals that the Lean Forward campaign seeks to highlight".
The most ardent minimalists wouldn't dare demonstrate the contempt for dialogue embodied here, a choice that can be read as a statement about the modern age, so full of communication devices yet so devoid of real communication.
