This amounts to stating the obvious, but in times of crisis, people take comfort in affirmations.
"I am not a candidate" amounts to stating an obvious fact of the moment, and nothing more.
Even the leading Democrat here, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was reduced to stating the obvious, that Mr. Pataki was "kicking off his re-election campaign".
Across the road, CNN's producers could not even commit to stating that Bush had answered his critics, nor even that he'd tried to do so.
So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other.
Summing up the experiences of 130,000 people like this is akin to stating New York "isn't what it used to be", shamelessly reductive.
So I would limit myself to stating that if the last movement of the symphony makes the impression it makes and keeps the listener in suspense, it is certainly not by chance.
But when it comes to stating now what the president's intent was then in the deposition, all he can in conscience do is say what he told the earlier grand jury: he tried to avoid testifying falsely.
The proposed change in the formal security relationship would probably also involve a shift to stating that Israel was a "strategic, major non-NATO ally" rather than just a "major non-NATO ally," officials said.
It may be akin to stating that a green light follows amber when pointing out that the Scottish game has lagged, perhaps terminally but certainly meaningfully, behind its continental equivalent.
We received a multipage online wedding invitation from friends we are not close to, stating that they don't require a gift but listing many pricey restaurants from which they would like gift certificates.
