The twin towers were a courageous statement of pride in America's unsurpassed material prosperity.
"A more Chinese style" is, for a certain class, both a statement of pride and a strategy of caution.
It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love and permanence, and of doing what's always been done in my family.
It is a public statement of pride in our love and thanks to all those who have campaigned for equality over many years".
Bachmann, who is now leading in the Republican-primary polls in Iowa, also said this week that she didn't want to talk about what went on inside of the Christian counselling center she and her husband, Marcus Bachmann, own, beyond a vague statement of pride: "We're very proud of our business; we're very proud of all job-creators across the United States".
The Afro came to prominence in the 1960s as a statement of pride and self-love in direct answer to white supremacy.
In both cases, people clearly took pride in their appearance, almost as a statement of pride and resilience amid disaster and poverty.
Britpop and Cool Britannia were both movements shrouded in the Union Jack, and were often clumsily asserted as statements of national pride.
But the shop's best-selling items are Sabina's line of T-shirts (399 rupees) and mugs (295 rupees), which are sold under the brand name Jailbird and cleverly marry Mumbai slang with statements of gay pride.
On the flip was one of the period's definitive statements of outsider pride, 'I'm Not Like Everybody Else', to be racked up against other garage band staples like the Yardbirds 'You're a Better Man Than I' and the Who's 'Substitute'.
This makes his statement of gay pride not defiant but instinctive, and that's new.
