| Many of the parents qualified their comments about punitive interventions with statements about the ineffectiveness of their efforts. |
| The device of dialogue allows abbreviation of statements without loss of clarity. |
| In spite of criticism from the pulpits, he refused to qualify his unequivocal statements. |
| This prisoner, a former policeman, was allegedly helping prison warders draw up false statements for submission to the commission, Barlow said. |
| Lowry's record is questionable when it comes to statements concerning his finances. |
| I think everybody kind of gets the gist of what she is trying to say, but it is also true that she is walking back several of her statements. |
