Sentence examples for first official statements from inspiring English sources
At first, official statements about the bridge, like an an untrustworthy station announcer's, see-sawed between evasion, over-confidence, and sulkiness.
China's first official statements on the escalating Middle East violence came on the same day that Gen. Frank Taylor, the State Department's special envoy for counterterrorism, arrived in Beijing.
The remarks were the first official statements from Iran and Syria since Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement last week that Washington would provide, for the first time, nonlethal aid directly to Syria's rebels, in addition to $60 million in assistance to Syria's political opposition.
Because Biden's speech coincided with the Malaysian Airlines crash (Biden's was one of the first official statements on the crash), there were a whole lot of clips on the news with the "Netroots Nation" background.
Mr. Moallem's comments were the government's first official statement regarding the Syrian National Council, an umbrella opposition group formed in Istanbul last week.
In the first official statement on the trials of 78 opponents of President Fidel Castro rounded up since March 18, the Justice Ministry said the sentences ranged from 6 to 28 years.
President Obama also strongly supports the legislation, the Office of Management and Budget said Wednesday, in the new administration's first official statement on the issue.
And on Monday came the first official statement about helping Russian citizens leave Syria — a nearly impossible task, since tens of thousands of Russian women have married into Syrian families and are scattered with their children throughout the country.
In its first official statement on the case, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it would not allow outside interference with Saudi Arabia's judicial system and that pressure from the media and human rights groups would have no impact on his punishment.
The Nauruan government delivered its first official statement on the files, having declined repeated requests for comment over recent weeks, in two tweets from the account of its information office on Tuesday.
