The baronial corner living room and the formal dining room — with room for 36 guests, windows facing west, north and east, and a white marble fireplace inset with onyx and pewter — serve as statement-making bookends to the duplex's entertainment spaces.
The 15 works are intimate, autobiographical self-portraits that also serve as statements about the censorship and the difficulties of life in the Soviet Union.
For four years, the Los Angeles nightclub known by a word that can't be printed in this newspaper, served as rejoinder to the clean-cut world of West Hollywood gay bars -- a gritty setting where dance, performance and activism were blurred into a single act, and where the human body served as statement and canvas, displaying piercings, tattoos and all kinds of other bod-mods.
That was a coded way of expressing Brown's hope that a new, written constitution will serve as a statement of British identity, one that British Muslims, among others, will be able to sign up to.
The initiative is one of many — both temporary measures and programs intended to be permanent — that serve as a statement of Mr. Obama's priorities in promoting government investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, education and job training, and innovation, even as he calls for considerable deficit reduction to counter the nation's mounting debt.
Yet while De Jong said that the eye-catching victory over United would serve as a "statement" of intent in terms of City's development, he also warned his team-mates that their season would be a failure if qualification for the Champions League was not achieved.
If they had been waiting since then to re-establish credentials at this elite level, last season's toils in the group section having damaged their reputation, then this resounding victory in the Ruhr valley will serve as a statement of renewed intent.
To put it in other terms, a scale measuring activity limitations should serve as a statement of the totality of the effects of health conditions or impairments on a child's activity limitations [ 36].
It has continued to serve as the prime statement of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity.
The title of the album, "Man With a Memory," could serve as Mr. Nichols's statement of purpose.
In a forceful floor speech that could serve as a closing statement in his election-year pitch for returning Republicans to power, Mr. McConnell accused the White House and Democrats in Congress of using their one-party control of Washington over the last two years to run up spending and now wanting to raise taxes to spend more.
