It was widely noted that Bush's euphoric statements proclaiming the transformation of Europe contrasted sharply with Havel's sombre assessment of Czechoslovakia's progress in the past year.

During the game, Jones released a statement proclaiming Gretzky's innocence.

Rick Ross shines the most, closing the track with carefully enunciated statements proclaiming his greatness and name-checking neighborhoods.

On his personal Web site, he posted a defiant statement proclaiming, "I now embrace the opportunity to clear my name."

It was to make a statement proclaiming their homosexuality, Mr. Mathews contended, not to make a statement about their Irishness.

The next morning he issued a terse statement proclaiming the readiness of the Fed to "provide liquidity."

When word of the loan was disclosed in October, the embarrassed organization hurriedly issued a statement proclaiming, "We are not in the red."

Year after year it sprinkles its annual reports with statements proclaiming that it has a commendable corporate conscience.

Klosterman also makes a bold statement about Radiohead's Kid A, proclaiming that track-by-track the 2000 album unintentionally details the events of the September 11 attacks.

Crenshaw made what later seemed a prophetic statement, proclaiming: "I believe in fate.