At times, it feels as if such statements are offered up as prayers in the hope that we are not in fact witnessing the beginning of abrupt and sustained climate change.
The article is indeed written in the 'musing' style so that no particularly strong or unusual statements are offered.
Another antiwar statement was offered by the Iraqi actress and singer Namaa Alward.
It was a hard and long process, full of compromises; this statement is offered to people's assemblies around the world for discussions, revisions and endorsements.
Issues of colonialism, capitalism, racism and globalisation are inherent in the work, yet no critique or political statement is offered by the artists.
The statement was offered not as a rigid or dogmatic manifesto but rather as a set of fairly general principles that could help people articulate their own deep ecological positions.
If a statement is offered in answer to a question, it is a proposition; if a statement gives rise to a question it is a presupposition.
(Today, this argument is generally associated with Popper and Eccles, 1977. It is an old argument, however, and clear statements of it were offered by James (1879) and by Romanes in 1882 (see Romanes, 1896).) According to the same biology that embraces natural selection, however, behavior has muscular causes, which in turn have neural causes.
Workers reached by telephone said Foxconn initially offered severance pay for those that wanted to leave rather than be transferred, but then reneged, angering the workers; Foxconn, in a statement, said transfers were offered, not severance, and only to some workers.
Students who rejected the statement about evolution were offered three possible reasons for rejecting evolution plus "other reasons please state" and asked to indicate which one most accurately described their position.
