… There could be an element of examining the statements made by the media to see whether they stand up. . .
If criteria of ontological commitment cannot be applied directly to ordinary language, then attributions of ontological commitment to philosophers or ordinary folk, but we will focus on philosophers cannot be made just by examining the statements or theories that they accept.
Let's first, though, examine the statement similar to the one that we examined for continuous time, namely the relationship between a time shift and a phase change.
A Virgin Media spokesman said "We are perplexed and disappointed by Ofcom's decision," but declined to comment further until it has examined the statement.
Therefore, to examine the statement "heavier means more fat-free mass," we reported not only correlations of fat-free mass with weight, and fat-free mass index with BMI, but also correlations of fat mass with weight and fat mass index with BMI.
Two leading nonprofit accounting experts examined the statements and found them to be incomplete and internally inconsistent.
But Representative William Lacy Clay, the Missouri Democrat presiding over the House, ruled that because the investigation would have to examine the statements of executive branch officials, it went beyond the scope of the special House procedure invoked by Mr. Bishop.
A spokesman for Representative Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas, told KXAN, an Austin NBC affiliate, that the congressman had declined one invitation from a local group affiliated with the Indivisible movement, because "if you closely examine the statements and missions of these groups, it's clear that civil, substantive discourse on issues is not their true agenda".
Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning arbiter of truth in politics, has examined the statements of eight governors, including Walker, who were elected in 2010.
I remember one partner advising a bunch of young auditors examining the financial statements of several of the biggest companies in the world, "If you try hard enough, you can always make the numbers add up".
