First, he restated his determination to stick to his plan to eliminate the structural deficit by 2014/15.
The first minister restated her commitment to the European convention of human rights, saying that it "defied belief" for any government to move away from it, and called for the UK to do more to help refugees in the Mediterranean.
It's an obvious enough point, but it cannot be restated enough: "No one with any knowledge of the murky manoeuvres that carved what is now Iraq out of the defeated Ottoman Empire after the first world war," he writes, "could possibly have thought it a good idea to try, by force of arms, to turn that artificial, riven state into a beacon of democracy for the Middle East".
He restated his purported commitment to a two-state solution, having told voters earlier this year that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch.
Khodorkovsky, who was released in December after a surprise pardon, renounced his claims to Yukos assets during an earlier trial, and restated on Monday that he will not seek to benefit from the Hague court's ruling.
In its winter outlook, the operator of pipes and pylons said the electricity margin – the difference between expected peak demand and available supply – has fallen to 4.1%, from a restated 5.9% last year, because of planned generator closures, breakdowns and delays to new plants.
It was that failure – not a mangled bacon sandwich or stumbling on a Question Time stage – that means Miliband bears great responsibility for Labour's defeat, as he himself restated in the Commons this week.
A centrist speech reasserted NHS values, offered a reassuring (if decidedly vague) undertaking not to privatise, and restated a campaign commitment to find the £8bn that the English NHS is officially deemed to require.
"More and more people are realising that the hen harriers' biggest enemy is the RSPB – not rogue gamekeepers," Botham told the Mail on Sunday in November after the charity restated its opposition to moving nests.
The policy change – first revealed by the attorney general, George Brandis, in a Senate estimates hearing – was restated by Tony Abbott overnight in the US.
But with telecoms in a slump, there may not be many buyers.Xerox restated its accounts in June because the office-equipment company said that a so-called "misapplication of GAAP" (generally accepted accounting standards) overstated its profits by $1.4 billion over five years.
