Five days after the story broke, Zuckerberg stepped out from behind his carefully curated Facebook profile – his typical mode of making public statements – to answer questions from a select group of media organizations.
Northrop Grumman, in a statement, declined to answer a list of questions regarding details of the program and requesting a response to the relatives' claims.
"Unfortunately it proved impossible to reach an agreed solution," the Greek prime minister, Costas Caramanlis, said in a statement, refusing to answer questions from journalists about the reasons for disagreement.
His statement seemed to answer a crucial question that had hung over the long-running talks to reach a peaceful settlement in Falluja: whether Mr. Jumali and tribal leaders like him could force the insurgents to disarm if that were called for in a peace agreement.
Therefore, we provided to subjects all the information necessary to understand how the research would affect them: the purpose of the research, its procedure, the risks to the subjects, the anticipated benefits to the subjects, alternatives to participation, the treatment of confidential information, the voluntary nature of participation, and a statement offering to answer the subjects' questions.
The parents, in a statement, sought to answer criticism that taking two small children on a year-long sailing trip around the world was not smart parenting.
Borrowers are already reporting having to both produce six months' worth of bank statements and to answer what they consider to be intrusive questions about their lifestyles.
It is good practice to provide a structured report with concise concluding statements intended to answer the specific clinical question(s) posed, if possible.
But the statement did seem to answer one pending question: Palestinian officials cannot hope to gain implicit recognition of statehood through the court.
