Unlike cities and towns, however, they do not have to submit any financial statements to the state Bureau of Audits.

Such statements may be misleading because they do not reflect differences in strength of the various kinds of wines, beers, and spirits.

The trouble with doing this is that when one can do this with anything that has lasted for an extended period of time resulting in absurd statements such as " England has not changed fundamentally in the past thousand years because the institution of the monarchy has existed for this long.

In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying " smoothly ", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not vary smoothly in this way, but have distinct, separated values.

* Ambiguous statements ( it for excrement, the situation or " a girl in trouble " for pregnancy, going to the other side for death, do it or come together in reference to a sexual act, tired and emotional for drunkenness )

If we have to get the feeling that everything that we do will show up in the newspapers tomorrow, you'll get whitewashed statements.

* statements assuming a combination of intention and probability (" they are moving ") to distinguish the likely series of events and dependencies (" if they can sell their house they might move to Agrestic or if they can't, to Gardendale ") in which the probability that an attempt to do something complex may fail is explicitly acknowledged and not assumed certain.

Ungrounded statements do not have a truth value.

The word " not " ( negation ) and the phrases " it is false that " ( negation ) and " it is not the case that " ( negation ) also express a logical connective – even though they are applied to a single statement, and do not connect two statements.

Many moral statements are de facto uttered as recommendations or commands, e. g. when parents or teachers forbid children to do wrong actions.

The most famous moral ideas are prescriptions: the Ten Commandments, the command of charity, the categorical imperative, and the Golden Rule command to do or not to do something, they are not statements that something is the case or not.

One might more constructively interpret these statements to describe the underlying emotional statement that they express, i. e.: I disapprove / do not disapprove of eating meat, I used to, he doesn't, I do and she doesn't, etc.

However, if ethical statements do not represent cognitions, it seems odd to use them as premises in an argument, and even odder to assume they follow the same rules of syllogism as true propositions.

It merely means that verbal statements do not make a hand value.

This is not the only way probabilistic statements are used in ordinary human language: when people say that " it will probably rain ", they typically do not mean that the outcome of rain versus not-rain is a random factor that the odds currently favor ; instead, such statements are perhaps better understood as qualifying their expectation of rain with a degree of confidence.

He usually puts these statements in quotes to distinguish them from his own: " But how does he know where and how he is to look up the word ' red ' and what he is to do with the word ' five '?

Fundamentally, statements that are literally true cannot provide the basis for a perjury charge ( as they do not meet the falsehood requirement ) just as answers to truly ambiguous statements cannot constitute perjury.

Typically, however, quoted paradoxical statements do not imply a real contradiction and the puzzling results can be rectified by demonstrating that one or more of the premises themselves are not really true, a play on words, faulty and / or cannot all be true together.

The ethics guidelines of major mental health organizations in the United States vary from cautionary statements to recommendations that ethical practitioners refrain from practicing conversion therapy ( American Psychiatric Association ) or from referring patients to those who do ( American Counseling Association ).

The above presents us with three possible counter-arguments: some statements do not need justification ; the chain of reasoning loops back on itself ; or the sequence never finishes.

and ( 3 ) in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of view, are mythological.

In almost all areas of the law ( even those where there is a statutory framework, such as contracts for the sale of goods, or the criminal law ), legislature-enacted statutes generally give only terse statements of general principle, and the fine boundaries and definitions exist only in the common law ( connotation 1 ).

The previous three statements give the definition of a Dedekind domain, and hence every principal ideal domain is a Dedekind domain.

Defamation — also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander ( for transitory statements ), and libel ( for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words )— is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation a negative or inferior image.

Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings.

The prophets Zechariah and Haggai both give unclear statements regarding Zerubbabel ’ s authority in their oracles, in which Zerubbabel was either the subject of a false prophecy or the receiver of a divine promotion to kingship.

The puzzle box experiments were motivated in part by Thorndike's dislike for statements that animals made use of extraordinary faculties such as insight in their problem solving: " In the first place, most of the books do not give us a psychology, but rather a eulogy of animals.

In subsequent public statements, Brel stated that he had nothing more to give to the music world, and that he wanted to devote more time to other projects.

He issued public statements challenging the ability of the Confederate Secretary of War to give commands to a full general.

The remains as we see them give evidence of the artist's power both of imitating natural detail with minute fidelity and of spacing his figures in a landscape with a large sense of air and distance ; and they amply verify two separate statements of Vasari concerning him: that " he delighted in drawing landscapes from nature exactly as they are, whence we see in his paintings rivers ; bridges, rocks, plants, fruits, roads, fields, cities, exercise grounds, and an infinity of other such things ," and that he was an inveterate experimentalist in technical matters.

The six suspects are all eventually traced and give statements in which they deny killing Campbell.

And while seemingly specific, such statements are often open-ended or give the reader the maximum amount of " wiggle room " in a reading.

When these psychological tricks are used properly, the statements give the impression that the mentalist, or scam artist, is intuitively perceptive and psychically gifted.

Yucef's subsequent statements give more details of this topic and are particularly incriminating of Benito Garcia.

The audit opinion is intended to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, and / or give a true and fair view in accordance with the financial reporting framework.

Even in the wake of glasnost, however, Bronstein only partially confirmed these rumors in his public statements or writings, admitting only to ' strong psychological pressure ' being applied, and that it was up to Bronstein himself whether to decide to give in to this pressure.

Astroturfing occurs when an organization or individual presents information or opinions on a subject without disclosing that they have been reimbursed for their statements in an intentional effort to give the appearance of an organic source.

Astroturfing is intended to give the statements the credibility of an independent entity, by withholding information about the source's financial connection.

Its report, produced in February 1999, estimated that it had taken " more than 100, 000 pages of reports, statements, and other written or printed documents " and concluded that the original Metropolitan Police Service investigation had been incompetent and that officers had committed fundamental errors, including: failing to give first aid when they reached the scene ; failing to follow obvious leads during their investigation ; and failing to arrest suspects.

There are also a number of sutta-like texts that are more general statements about Buddhist doctrine, or that give biographical details of some of the great disciples and their enlightenment.

Its report, produced in February 1999, estimated that it had taken " more than 100, 000 pages of reports, statements, and other written or printed documents " and concluded that the original Metropolitan Police Service investigation had been incompetent and that officers had committed fundamental errors, including: failing to give first aid when they reached the scene ; failing to follow obvious leads during their investigation ; and failing to arrest suspects.

His history ( first published in 1834 ), which deals with the reigns of Charles III and Ferdinand IV ( 1734 – 1825 ), is still the standard work for that period, but it value is somewhat diminished by the authors bitterness against his opponents and the fact that he does not give chapter and verse for his statements, many of which are based on his recollection of documents seen, but not available at the time of writing.

According to My Gorgeous Life, and statements Edna has made over the years, she was born Edna May Beazley in the city of Wagga Wagga, with a sibling who would give birth to Barry McKenzie.

The Guardians made riddling statements -- " He will seek that which must die, and give it life.