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1827 Niles' Weekly Reg. 8 Sept. 30/1 Have I not well said..that the manufacturers were a combining, club-meeting,..complaining, statement-making, worrying, persevereing class of men?

1935 Accounting Rev. 10 221/2 Spreading the gospel of adequate, and satisfactory, financial reporting and statement making.

1964 Arlington Daily News Texan 24 Apr. 1/5 After a statement-taking session that lasted until 4 a.m. Thursday and a roundup of stolen goods that went on all day Thursday.

1970 R. V. Jamison Fortran IV Programming ix. 172 Often errors creep in because of negligence: lack of care in following the rules of statement writing, in punching the statements on cards, in punching the data cards that the program will process.

1988 R. M. Lemos Metaphys. Investig. iv.103 The categories of statements and statement making require one another, so that neither is reducible to the other.

1995 A. Cretney & G. Davis Punishing Violence vi. 129 The process of statement-taking can be seen as the first step in the victim's progressive alienation from his or her ‘story’ by the processes of the law.

2007 S. Madsen Pract. Skills Police Community Support Officers ix. 122 It is..of paramount importance the statement is completed correctly, contains the relevant information in chronological order, is legible and follows the rules of statement writing.

2013 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 25/3 Moon boots are more statement-making—and Bogner's navy Alpe d'Huez Moon Boots..make the right kind.