Mayor James noted that he would have fired any aide who engaged in similar conduct, only to face statements by the club's manager that the mayor had himself been to the club twice.
Some of the defiant "in your face" statements to the crisis emerging from members of Israel's right wing coalition are troublesome.
What used to be aspirational started becoming an in-your-face statement of conspicuous consumption.
To Mr. Rove, the gathering will be an opportunity to journey into the citadel of the Democrats and make an in-your-face statement about the strength of the president and his party.
The decision to go there amounted to a bold, in-your-face statement of confidence, and it underscored the pronounced difference during these final hours between the styles of Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore.
It was a game-face statement - an effort by Fay, who now heads the International Climate Change Partnership (ICCP), to remind us that no one really knows what will happen next - in part because Trump offered little in the way of discernible policy on any issues, let alone environment.
Strictly on its face, this statement is not credible.
"Teachers need to see a student's whole face," a statement read, "in order to read the visual cues it provides".
He later stated that Google could face a "statement of objections" - the formal path towards a fine that could equate to 10% of the company's global revenue, or about $6bn£3.7bnbn).
Police tied the boy up to restrain him and he also suffered injuries on his face, the statement added.
On its face, the statement suggested only that the signers questioned the power of natural selection, although wording appearing in the advertisement surreptitiously hinted that it was evolution itself that was being questioned by the signatories, not merely the power of natural selection.
