But she has had to resort to credulity-stretching gymnastics to explain past utterances.
"It might surprise some people given his past utterances and stances in support of republicanism that the UUP wants to enlist Jeremy Corbyn's support for our mental health campaign.
But more important than firing an official who has embarrassed him on the issue of race, for which Johnson himself has been criticised over his past utterances, the mayor should now put into action his declared commitment to multiculturalism.
An ethical system is a model of how we adjudicate our past utterances and actions or how we can predict our future utterances and actions.
This was accomplished by feeding every one of Limbaugh's past utterances into a DARPA neural net supercomputer, creating a virtual persona, a Rushbot if you will, which was presented with nearly 18,000 variables across 10 billion simulations until the right outrage could be reliably elicited.
And even though 'Do you have the ability to pass the salt?' and 'Can you pass the salt?' (at least arguably) mean the same thing and hence utterances of them have the same conversational implicating potential, because of past uses an utterance of the latter but not the former will naturally give rise to the request for the salt.
Like it or not, Bill represents the past, his every utterance a reminder that the couple have been centre-stage in public life for a quarter of a century.
It's the ghost of utterances past he couldn't get to grips with.
For the two readings, either the temporal perspective or the temporal orientation of the non-root modal is located in the past of the speaker's utterance time.
The metaphysical reading of the construction, by contrast, has to do with the potential of an event occurring in the future of some time; and this time is, in turn, located in the past of the speaker's utterance time.
