Sentence examples for passing statement from inspiring English sources

Her doctor makes a passing statement about eating healthy with a knowing smile.

And even after hundreds of thousands of people began coming out last Saturday and Sunday, and the regime used violence against nonviolent demonstrators, President Obama only made a passing statement about not being able to remain silent, only to fall into silence right afterwards.

He visited schools to tell children about the famine; he covered the country with Holodomor memorials; he ordered the state security service to open its archives about the Holodomor; he tried to get international bodies to pass statements condemning it as a genocide.

A detail in passing: The statement was published in the Washington Post on Feb. 20, 2003, in response to Gerhard Schröder's refusal ("for the sake of electoral tactics," said Merkel back then) to have Germany join in any international action against Saddam Hussein — even under United Nations auspices.

The pass statement, which serves as a NOP.

Democratic sources are passing around statements made by Reps.

Soon thereafter, version two appeared, replacing the buck-passing with the clear statement: "These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not Jackie".

His remote students will get the same lectures as students paying $50,000 a year, the same assignments, the same exams and, if they pass, a "statement of accomplishment" (though not Stanford credit).

But whether the offensive he described comes to pass, his statement portrayed the Iraqi Kurds as fighting on the side of the United States as they seek a role in a Iraqi government free of Saddam Hussein.

"That the USG chose to pass a "statement" instead of a "resolution" makes clear the Adminisitration's unwillingness to do all that is necessary to end genocide in Darfur.

Shortly after his arrest Abdaladze passed a statement to a newspaper denying the accusation and saying he believed he and his colleagues had been targeted on Saakashvili's orders for photographing the bloody aftermath of an opposition demonstration on 26 May when riot police clashed with protesters.