He had only just observed that "in 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never found anybody doing any good" – statements that together amounted to a credo for the brutal Sunday tabloid world of which McMullan became the chief spokesman in the otherwise stifled confines of courtroom 73.
This meeting is still likely to end with a feel-good statement that some form of progress has been made towards the 2015 goal, but the danger is that between now and that crucial date any further upsets, backsliding, failure to agree finance or deepening rifts between rich and poor could derail the whole process.
With regards to working our way back up to the conversation as one of the better teams in Division I lacrosse, I'd like to say that we made a good statement to that this past season, but next year, we have to continue to move forward and continue to get better".
When I try to engage Scripture as a whole narrative -- not as a piecemealed argument resource -- I am often reminded that we, as the creation, have been created in the eyes of our Creator as a really good creation, a statement that was never taken back in the scriptural narrative.
He said: "I think that's a good statement from us.
John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, said the plan was "a good statement to make," but that Congress should use the power of the purse to end the war.
"Hiring a woman for this film would make a statement -- a really good statement -- that yes, a woman can direct the movie about the early years of the most powerful woman in the world".
When the first lady suggested that the president was "always ready to listen to good ideas," an amorphous statement that doesn't exactly seem ripe for fact-checking, Fox News was undaunted and put the lie detector on her assertion.
They're popular, in a simple, storybook way, and that's good, that's a stronger statement, that's maybe more serious, because it's more collaborative — it draws on the deeper, idealistic life of the people.
"You often receive a statement that clears goods for import but then find out those goods really don't belong to you," sighs Bernstein.
Moreover, publishing the MPC's minutes together with the policy decision is not a good substitute for a concise statement that summarises the rationale for the decision of the majority.
