The phrase "modern statements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe statements, ideas, or policies that are relevant to current times or that reflect the values of the present day. For example: "The new laws reflect modern statements on climate change."
"I'm a little tired of those modern statements.
Few modern statements sound more like Augustine than this one, taken from an editorial Santorum penned in 2007: "Our Constitution granted unprecedented liberty to the individual.
However several selectors spontaneously commented that they were surprised by the honesty and the openness of the referees' reports made in 1990, and that more modern statements seemed bland, non-committal and uninformative in comparison.
Despite the building's traditional vocabulary, the museum's use of glass walls makes a modern statement.
"We appreciated the architect's attempt to make a contextual but modern statement in a historic district," Ms. Raab said.
The best-known modern statement of this position is a 1921 book, "The Poetry of Dante," by the philosopher Benedetto Croce.
At the same time, its dramatic blue-and-pink glass-and-steel appearance and spectacular (if noisy and difficult to climatize) central atrium makes a bold modern statement about the open nature of government.
A good number of his designs were constructed with outside walls covered with white-glazed brick, seen by its enthusiasts as making a modern statement appropriate for midcentury architecture.
"That was fantastic," Michael Roberts, the fashion director of Vanity Fair, declared after the Jil Sander show, where laser-sharp tailoring, supersaturated color and the crisp lightness of Japanese kimono silks and synthetics made for a clear modern statement.
Professor Knox recalled, in "Essays Ancient and Modern," "These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked, mine-infested fields, the shattered cities and the starving population of that Italy Virgil so loved, the misery of the whole world at war".
A roomy, elegant-yet-sporty bag with handles designed to be carried in the hand or on the wrist, with four studs on the base, the Birkin represented a new, modern statement from a fashion house known for its traditional, classical stance.
