The phrase "this very statement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to an idea or opinion that you have just expressed. For example: "The current economic situation is dire; this very statement is evidenced by rising unemployment rates."
Yet in this very statement, designed to clear the air, was language that betrayed even more lies, deceit, and pathological self-righteousness.
I hear: "I want all of the benefits that come from gender equality, but wish to distance myself from the associated stigma that, through this very statement, I myself am propagating.
So blessed to be back in the US for Thanksgiving day with friends and family, faced with the choice to let it slide, or to make this very statement.
Finally, the press release doesn't claim to have done any LGBT advocacy or outreach in Russia, only in the U.S. As far as we know, up to this point, the only public advocacy for LGBT people in Russia that Stoli has done has been this very statement, which calls the new laws "dreadful".
Would that very statement be an oxymoron?
Why is he making this very public statement?
If the Tribunal wish, I can make this very brief statement.
"On Sunday, it will be New Yorkers joined by their fellow Americans, and by the rest of the world, who will be making this very emphatic statement".
"That's why we warmly welcome this very clear statement that there will be no taxpayer funding for this highly damaging project – damaging to the climate and damaging to the reef".
The Red Queen replies with this very famous statement: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place".
Perhaps the best way to read this very unclear statement is as meaning that the distinctive addition in the third proposal is the notion of inadvertency.
