The phrase "in statements like" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing examples or comparisons related to specific statements or phrases.
Example: "In statements like 'I believe in hard work,' the emphasis is on personal values."
Alternatives: "in phrases such as" or "in expressions like".
We should be clear, though, about what Mr Piketty is after: breaking much of modern economic history down into a few constituent forces that can be easily captured in statements like r>g.
Yet Roosevelt's traditional enemies would have found much to applaud in statements like: "The Nazi recovery program organized the economy in ways that bore a clear surface resemblance to the early New Deal".
Researchers surveyed 85 female undergraduates from a large Canadian university about compassion-avoidance, measured in statements like, "If I think someone is being kind and caring to me, I put up a barrier". Those who reported being more afraid of compassion also said they were less likely to share their struggles with friends and family.
They feel that they must rise to the challenge of friends and colleagues who flaunt their status as frequently flying culturati in statements like, "The Korean ceramics we saw in Osaka are mud pies next to those in private collections in Seoul".
He ably explains the subtly distinct shadings of the word "probability" in statements like "There's a 90percentt probability I'll get a six in the next 12 rolls of this die," "There's a 90percentt probability of a catastrophic climate change in the next 50 years" and "There's a 90percentt probability that the current warming of the earth is a result of human activity".
Eminem's entire verse is a spurious message to haters, the rapper's bravado coming through in statements like "This rap game's… mine for the milking" and at the verse's end, "'So let them… raise cause I came with 5'9" but I feel like i'm 6'8.'".
They exist in opposition to declarative boosters statements —like "obviously" and "always"—that men tend to favour.
It is not hard to spot historians' sidestep in deploying statements like "Lincoln stopped talking about colonization" as substitutes for "Lincoln abandoned colonization," thus leaving open the possibility that he continued to pursue it out of the spotlight.
In reality, statements like "we're praying for them" or "God is watching over them" are no comfort.
Over-ambitious resolutions communicated in vague statements like 'Increase revenue by 50%' or 'Get more Customers' do not have much chance of being implemented.
Just like in English, statements like "A zebra has white and black stripes" and "San Francisco is a small city" would be in the present tense.
