Told to issue a statement of self-criticism, Mr. Maetzig complied, saying publicly: "I believed I was firmly in line with the party.
Baath party leaders, he added, expect Saddam to issue a public statement of self-criticism, "telling of his mistakes and his excesses," including his reliance on his sons.
The police chief has said that, because Zimmerman has made a statement of self-defence, and there is no evidence to dispute that, he has not been arrested.
Fame-induced madness, or a defiant statement of self-ownership in the face of a runaway debut single that burdened her with the most famous juvenile locks in town?
In fact, red meat on a date has become such an effective statement of self-acceptance that even a vegetarian like Sloane Crosley, a publicist at Random House, sometimes longs to order a burger.
So while buying light fixtures separately may not seem like much of a statement of self-determination, it reflects a decentralized campus on which the notion of an all-powerful administration is often seen as the enemy of academic freedom.
When asked why Zimmerman had not been arrested, the police said that he had made a statement of self-defence and that they have not established a case to dispute that.
"In Senegal or Mali, which are restrictive Islamic societies, wearing a very eclectic hairstyle can be your way of making a statement that you are taking your freedom to say what you want to say," Mr. Esiebo said, "while in Liberia or Côte D'Ivoire, the same hairstyle can be a statement of self-representation or a way to get attention of the ladies".
Pacific Standard Time, as this festival is known, is an exhaustive accounting of the birth of the Los Angeles-area art scene, but it is also a statement of self-affirmation by a region that, at times, appears to feel underappreciated as a serious culture center.
