The " was " version is reported speech : it talks only about what the president said, with no further implication.
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Because folktales, myths, and legends are, in essence, reported speech, it follows that the hearsay marker would be used with them.
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He voted against extending airstrikes against ISIL into Syria, in the absence of " credible ground forces ", after his widely reported speech.
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On Monday, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Teijiro Furukawa told reporters Hashimoto did not specifically pledge permanent tax cuts Friday in a widely-reported speech.
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In a widely reported speech in October 1962, he took issue with government attacks on " big business " simply because it was big.
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I undestood it to mean 1 ) giving all opinions in reported speech, and 2 ) not using biased / weasel words in commentary.
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Examples are the ablative absolute, the accusative-plus-infinitive construction used for reported speech, gerundive constructions, and the common use of reduced relative clauses expressed through participles.
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While the use of Konjunktiv I for reported speech is formal and common in newspaper articles, its use in colloquial speech is in continual decline.
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In January, in a widely reported speech to members of his ministry, Nakmura suggested t Japan should revise its constitution to allow it more military freedom.
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Last month in Washington, the former Japanese prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, made precisely this point in a much reported speech to the Council on Foreign Affairs.
