The company's public financial statements support their claims, they said.

"His statements did not support the view that we should expect a rate cut before the March 20 meeting."

The lawyers would also not know how strongly the witness's statements might support their case.

Those two statements could well support the defense theory.

Friends suggest that he made statements supporting the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"You can get Waterman to make a statement supporting me?"

Certainly the doctrinal statement itself would not necessarily support such a shift.

It was not clear how the defense intended to use the statements to support its contentions.

Although an effect can't be changed by its cause, the counterfactuals that causal statements support are true.

Many criminal lawyers think the President's statements would not support a prosecution for perjury.