Sentence examples for somber statement from inspiring English sources

This is no gauzy inaugural address, no giddy election-night victory speech, no somber statement on an unnatural disaster, no playful turn on a talk show or at a tuxedo dinner.

In a somber statement to the House of Commons, the armed forces minister, Adam Ingram, said that despite suspicions that the photographs, which were published over the weekend in The Daily Mirror, had been faked, the Royal Military Police would conduct a thorough investigation.

In a somber statement in the Oval Office on Thursday morning, Obama once again called on lawmakers to change the law.

In a somber parting statement, Mr. Barak laid the full blame for the setback on Mr. Arafat, and declared that Israel was prepared for "every possibility".

President François Hollande, in a brief, somber televised statement on Saturday evening, said that two French soldiers had died in the mission and that the hostage, a French intelligence officer, was "assassinated" by his Islamist captors despite the militants' claims that he was still alive.

But just two weeks ago, Obama eschewed public fanfare as he marked the 10-year anniversary of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan with no more than a somber written statement.

From the opening of the first movement, with the somber, two-part contrapuntal statement in a sharply dotted rhythm, the playing was emphatic and frank.

The family and several civil rights groups sounded a somber note in a statement responding to the prosecutor's decision not to seek a retrial. .

Before the Atlanta race, a somber Stewart read a statement saying he had skipped the three races "out of respect for Kevin and his family and also to cope with the accident in my own way".

Mr. Bush made a confident entrance to the formal setting of the East Room down a long red carpet, mounted his podium and delivered his opening statement in the somber tones of a leader in the midst of war.

"The developments of recent days and months have shown that this confidence, and therefore my ability to act, have been lastingly impaired," a somber Wulff said in a brief statement at the president's Bellevue palace, with his wife, Bettina, at his side.