Sentence examples for taken the statement from inspiring English sources

"Our expectation is that no action will be taken," the statement said.

"We find it extraordinary that Luis can be found guilty on the word of Patrice Evra alone when no one else on the field – including Evra's own team-mates and all the match officials – heard the alleged conversation between two players in a crowded Kop goalmouth while a corner-kick was about to be taken," the statement said.

This does not involve an unqualified and simple originalism in constitutional interpretation, or a simple denial of the characteristic insistence of legal dogmatics that the intention of the parties to agreements or declarations is to be ascertained "objectively (not subjectively)," that is, by reference to what a reasonable observer would have taken the statement in issue to mean.

Some, though, take the statement to its literal extreme.

Take the statement "I am tired," for example.

Investors and Fed watchers took the statement as another signal that the recession was scraping bottom.

Asked if the person who took the statement had suggested the phrase to him, he replied: "Not at all".

No sergeant will take that statement — you, the detective, take the statement yourself, and then you type it up and get the signatures on it and photocopy it and file it and all the rest.

"They will continue to explore all possibilities before deciding the direction the franchise will take," the statement said.

Let's take the statement "there is a causal relationship between exposure to violent media and aggression".

No sergeant will take that statement you, the detective, take the statement yourself, and then you type it up and get the signatures on it and photocopy it and file it and all the rest.