Sentence examples for statement act from inspiring English sources

I've always associated the word "normal" when used within an imperative statement ("act normal," "be normal") with a 50s era parent hectoring their child to stop listening to the Doors or to stop reading James Baldwin.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that Dongguk "has failed to present any evidence that any individual at Yale who was responsible for publication of a defamatory statement acted with actual malice," which Dongguk needed to prove.

Van Gennep's statement, "acts of a special kind, derived from a particular feeling and a particular frame of mind" (Van Gennep 1960 1), is identified as psychological explanations for rituals; at this point, Van Gennep was criticized and rejected.

The carefully worded statement acted as a legal shield for him to tour the country's mansions to personally raise $100 million for his own super PAC -- an act that is illegal for a declared candidate.

In 2008 it introduced the Danish Financial Statements Act.

In 2006, Specter proposed the Presidential Signing Statements Act, which would have empowered Congress to file suit to have a signing statement declared illegal by a federal court.

In a recent book, "The Appearance of Impropriety," Glenn Reynolds and Peter Morgan, former professors at the University of Tennessee College of Law, warn that the expansion of the False Statements Act means that even innocent people are subject to potential felony investigations every time they are questioned by federal officials.

During the past few decades, judges have begun to worry about the fairness of prosecuting people for the natural impulse to deny their guilt, and several federal courts carved out an exception to the False Statements Act, called the "exculpatory no," which held that certain lies of self-protection weren't felonies.

They predicted that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, will likely review the issue of false statements and find that Kushner did not commit a crime "If you're asking me does he have a liability under the False Statements Act, the only thing that was incorrect was a form that was filed and corrected within twenty-four hours.

Assuming you want your opinion to stand out, the presence of billions of competing statements acts as an incentive to make it big and bold.

An old law called the False Statements Act--which prohibits "any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements" to federal officials--was invoked during the '80s and '90s by a parade of independent counsels.