Sentence examples for statements fall from inspiring English sources

But when contentious religious statements fall short of that bar, the EU will "resist any calls or attempts for the criminalisation of such speech".

Metaphysical statements fall into two main classes: statements about what exists and prescriptions about how to take or understand what exists.

His statements fall into three groups: 1) Slandering Japan and South Korea's alliance contributions, 2) Creating uncertainty about long standing assumptions about American policy that underpin global security, and 3) Calling into question American leadership in the world.

But they said those statements fell short of the clear demand for a lawyer needed to halt questioning.

The logic of blanket statements falls apart when you're confronted with the diversity of lived religious and nonreligious experience.

While today's statements fell short of defining a new policy for an administration whose approach has been criticized as too hands-off and too muddled, taken together they seemed to show that the White House was bending -- slowly -- to calls for a new approach.

"This tension is borne partly out of the violence we had in 2008, and this sense that with all that's going on with al-Shabaab, with the government not seeming to know what it's doing – making clueless statements, falling out with its traditional friends, the US and the UK – this gives you this sense that something bad is bound to happen".

Incredibly, the California Supreme Court ruled that Nike's public statements fell under the category of "commercial speech," i.e., advertising, and were therefore subject to the state's false-advertising laws.

These statements fell on the same day as the former Rangers owner Craig Whyte was banned from being a company director for the maximum period of 15 years after a court heard that his conduct in his dealings with the Ibrox club was "singularly shocking and reprehensible".

Human rights observers welcomed the delegation's reaffirmation that the convention against torture was not limited to US territory — as the Bush administration had argued in the past — but said the statements fell short of claiming torture was banned everywhere.

Yahoo's statement falls into that pattern too.