Sentence examples for taking a statement from inspiring English sources

Consider the technique mathematicians call a reductio ad absurdum, taking a statement to an extreme in order to refute it.

After taking a statement from his body-guard, who said the actor had been drinking when his Land Cruiser hit the people asleep on the pavement in the Bandra neighbourhood, they sought to file more serious charges.

Some researchers have already used the autobiographies to make simplistic points about miserable only children, taking a statement such as "I was lonely because I was an only child" at face value, rather than considering other factors.

Within minutes there are half a dozen police on the scene, taking a statement from the traumatised fellow student who discovered the body, talking to the staff in the hall of residence, looking through the young man's possessions to establish his identity.

To me, "bumper sticker politics" also includes things like when Governor Romney accuses President Obama of making a global "Apology Tour" or deliberately taking a statement out of context and turning it into an entire campaign theme: "We built it, Mr. President".

In principle, "After taking a statement, immediately the investigating officer, considering the prima facie facts, draws down a FIR.

In hospital, the police came and took a statement.

You cannot just take a statement and raise the pitch at the end.

If you can't take a statement, then you don't fully understand the law".

"Police visited a Somali woman in response to public claims and offered to take a statement.

Later that day, a Rio police detective came to the USA House to take a statement.