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).
In a dramatic change of position, Joaquín Almunia, the EC's competition commissioner, told the European parliament that unless Google altered its offer to settle complaints, it 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).
The head of the clean-transportation advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, Paul Steely White, said in a statement: "Facing a daunting fiscal situation brought on by the governor and state Legislature's repeated budget raids, Walder kept our trains and buses serving millions of New Yorkers 24 hours every day".
Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, revealed the pressure that some Labour MPs were facing in a statement on his Facebook page.
Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael B. Oren, who had been widely quoted as saying that relations between Israel and the United States were facing a historic crisis, issued a statement saying he had been "flagrantly misquoted".
"Teachers need to see a student's whole face," a statement read, "in order to read the visual cues it provides".
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Under subsequent legislation, those who make false statements face a heavy criminal sanction: those who file a statement which they know does not conform to legal requirements face up to 10 years in prison and a $1m fine; while for a "wilfully" false certification, there is a penalty of up to twenty years in prison and a $5m fine.
But if Romer did say publicly, in an explicit way, that the banking system faced a solvency crisis, that statement in itself could cause chaos in the markets as was seen on a smaller level when Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn).
A year earlier, the chief justice said that continuing erosion of judicial pay was "the most pressing issue facing the judiciary," a statement quoted by the American Bar Association in a friend-of-the-court brief urging the justices to accept the judges' appeal.
