Sentence examples for qualify a statement from inspiring English sources

In particular, the proposal failed to remove or qualify a statement in the existing bylaws that expressly disclaimed any shareholder right to include a nominee in the company proxy statement, and the SEC staff agreed that the resulting inconsistency made the proposal vague and indefinite.

Some people might qualify a statement like this as a sign of gratuitous and perhaps delusional self-obsession.

EVEN if it were just another glimmering new Lower East Side tower full of multimillion-dollar condos, the sleek, eight-story glass tower at 257 Bowery would qualify as a statement building, with its room-size red elevator visible through the building's corrugated-glass facade and its sensuously undulating balustrade, perched high above the 29-foot-tall ground-floor exhibition space.

When using Hooke's law, it and other constitutive equations should be qualified with a statement that points out it is a simple and appropriate starting point, but that nonlinear elasticity may play a role.

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy with severe restrictions on women in daily life, will allow female athletes to compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer if they qualify, according to a statement by the country's embassy in London.

JB: Weasel words refer to vague adjectives, adverbs, and other words that attempt to qualify or intensify a statement -- but actually just make it seem like bullshit.

The two other press releases were short documents (110 and 117 words) that included no content qualifying as a statement for the purposes of this study.

I should qualify my statement by adding an adjective: good realistic fiction offers truth through imagination.

Simply slipping in a question mark to qualify your statement after the fact without very obviously calling attention to it is inadequate.

Why should a judge need to qualify his statement?

"At a rough guess I would say everyone, hoping to qualify that statement to my satisfaction later".