Statement still stands

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

But when it comes to more recent books, my statement still stands.

A spokesperson for Swift told The Independent at the time of publishing that her original statement still stands.

(Though the embassy staff in Cairo later said on Twitter that its original statement "still stands" — a message it then tried to delete — the Obama administration disavowed the embassy's statement).

(Though the embassy staff in Cairo later said on Twitter that their original statement "still stands" — a Tweet they then tried to delete — the Obama administration disavowed the embassy's statement).

"The statement still stands," Kotman repeated several times, referring to a unapologetic declaration that Bachmann's office issued shortly after McCain's tirade.

"Our statement still stands," Ninio Fetalvo, assistant White House press secretary, told HuffPost in an email Sunday when asked for comment about Shulkin's insistence that he was fired.

I asked Enbridge about these documents, and Graham White, and after initially responding that "our statements still stand," he told me that "these documents are authorizations from Michigan DEQ for one of our contractors, JFNew, to use these products to control vegetation along the banks for Talmadge Creek".

But Howard P. Chudacoff argues that in the end, the kids will always win. "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do," writes Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a statement that still stands as the simplest and truest definition of play.

It is a statement he still stands by.

Mindful of the fact that Benteke, the leading scorer in each of the last three seasons, and Delph, the captain, have departed since he made that statement, Sherwood was asked whether he still stands by his comments.

His 1904 essay still stands as an eloquent statement of the school's mission.