Following Carrasco's death, members of all parties signed a joint statement of unity, vowing to defeat Eta, but the PP complained afterwards that it did not condemn the idea of negotiations.
He knew instantly he wanted to make a statement of unity upon the emergence of a videotape from Osama bin Laden on Friday afternoon, and strode purposefully, alone, across the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Fla., to do so.
It's also an album Albarn has described as "the last piece of the jigsaw of us getting our friendship back together" – a statement of unity from a band of old friends whose frazzled, turbulent relationship almost came to and end when guitarist Graham Coxon, fresh from a spell in the Priory for his drink problems, was asked to leave the band in 2002.
As a document of family life in the early 21st century, these cards are smug and also touching; many of the tableaux are of second families – the kids will be in more than one photo-card this Christmas – and the artwork a public statement of unity.
The tall Turk in his suit and the squat Kurd in his militia's traditional baggy camouflage were making an unprecedented statement of unity.
Many people, indigenous and non-indigenous, put themselves on the line to make a statement of unity and are receiving heat from their own communities for their efforts.
Although Hadi has many supporters here, street protesters greeted his statement of unity with the chant: "Hadi, you are contemptible, the blood of the sons of the south is not cheap".
The day's close As night fell, the campaign logo was projected onto the UN headquarters buildings in New York in a dramatic statement of unity in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Viewed through the lens of the weeks-old attacks, Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind" and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards's powerhouse version of "Miss You" morph from inner soundtracks to ineffable statements of public unity.
