'fleeting statements' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it when describing a situation where someone made a series of short, passing remarks. For example, "The politician's speech was filled with fleeting statements and soundbites that did not address the issues at hand."
Yet military intervention, sporadic and uncommitted, has provided only limited assistance and Obama's latest statement delivered fleeting reference to the devastating violence perpetrated against women by ISIL.
Throughout his career, Damien Hirst has used butterflies (including live ones hatching in a gallery) to make statements about the fleeting nature of life.
And over the past week, Politico revealed White House efforts to prevent the Pentagon from hiring an American diplomat seen as critical of Sisi's coup, while BuzzFeed News reported that Egypt was ramping up lobbying efforts in D.C. Photo-ops and positive statements may offer fleeting satisfaction for both sides.
The federal judge in the case said Barnes' "fuck the police" statement "was a fleeting epithet that was insulting and inappropriate, but it did not create an immediate threat and danger of violence".
But the next afternoon, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund ended with a tepid statement that made only fleeting and indirect references to the simmering currency tensions.
Then, as now, fame could be cruelly fleeting, even for those whose accomplishments made a statement heard round the world.
"I once saw a film in which a character kept a diary that was composed mostly of a list," Evans-Butler writes in his statement, "things that were pleasing, beautiful, fanciful and fleeting.
The pair do not represent a statement of intent from a club whose return to the Champions League last term proved to be fleeting – but they will undoubtedly improve the squad.
