31.   The defense secretary said he took recent statements by Omar that exhorted his followers to fight to the death seriously.

32.   The Longhorns took that statement personally.

33.   The pizza manager said Harris and Klebold sometimes wore their coats to work but their fashion statement was never taken as a symbol of violent behavior.

34.   The prosecution plans on Tuesday to call its witness on the confession matter, one of the detectives who questioned Taylor and took his statements.

35.   The statement was taken as a formal end of a much-violated cease-fire that had been proclaimed eight months earlier.

36.   The statement was taken lightheartedly by many of us, and it became fodder for late-night television comedians.

37.   The school board took statements throughout the summer.

38.   The unrelated statements are taken from different accounts of the crucifixion in each of the four Gospels.

39.   The statement was taken as a threat that labor unions would occupy companies whose owners opposed the president.

40.   The Weyrich monitoring project took this statement as a pledge.