Sentence examples for stock statement from inspiring English sources

Mr Gingrich rehearsed his stock statement about having done things he isn't proud of and having asked God for forgiveness, and then made haste toward the "family" dimensions of tax policy.

We've asked the Obama campaign for more than their stock statement that they'll abide by whatever the D.N.C. decides, (of course as the senator is ahead in pledged delegates a do-over is not necessarily to his benefit).

Although the Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of most of the witnesses called before the grand jury, it made the following comment concerning the conduct of the Special United States Attorney: '(His) stock statement to the witness that she was not under investigation and that the grand jury was not proceeding against her, was not warranted.

So Bussell began the "early life" segment with the stock statement: "the journey to stardom began with trauma", and talked us through a father abandoning his family, the outbreak of the second world war (which found her studying ballet in the Netherlands), and the young Hepburn surviving what is called the Hongerwinter by grinding up tulip bulbs in the Dutch city of Arnhem to make "flour".

Box responded to inquiry with a stock statement: "We're incredibly excited for the coming year and the next phase of Box's growth.

This response could be compelling, but lacking any concrete plans to back it up it ends up sounding like a stock statement that could be cut and pasted to respond to any issue.

The doyen of stock statements and half-funny jokes.

"We looked at the stock statements and not what was in the funds," he said.

As I was looking at my stock statements for 2007, I noticed I had done fabulously well — by my very modest standards — on my large, broad-market index funds (especially Fidelity Spartan Total Market and Vanguard Total Stock Market), on my Canadian and Australian index funds and on an emerging-market index fund and a developed-market index fund.

Except one stock statement--saying the SBA is a good steward of taxpayer money--their public relations staff have repeatedly said officials there are working on a response.

At Calvin College my 'widening the gap' remark, in its context, sought to challenge the students to think outside the box when they hear stock statements that pit one group of people against another.