Sentence examples for statement lightly from inspiring English sources

"I don't make that statement lightly.

I don't make this statement lightly.

I know that he didn't make today's statement lightly, but approached it in his typically thoughtful and positive manner.

Please understand I don't make that statement lightly.

I don't make that statement lightly, nor do I expect everyone to agree.

Be sympathetic and understanding to what they're saying, and don't blow anything off or take any statement lightly.

The 118-year-old Cole Brothers Circus is owned by John Pugh, a former acrobat, who does not take such statements lightly.

The chancellor, who spent five years as foreign minister and so knows all the ministers who have now turned against him, continued: "I did not take Mr. Haider's past statements lightly and I would never have formed this government without a strong and credible apology from him.

His statement has a lightly confessional tone and begins, "Having once chosen the largest show, it seems that now I have chosen the smallest".

Rosario Lamberto, a friend of Mr. Quattrone's since first grade from south Philadelphia, said of Mr. Quattrone: "I would literally place my life and the life of my wife and children in his hands, and that is not a statement I make lightly".

This is not a statement I make lightly.