blanket statement

collocation in English

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blanket
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/us
/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/
including or affecting everything, everyone, or all cases, in a large group ...
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statement
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsteɪt.mənt/us
/ˈsteɪt.mənt/
something that someone says or writes officially, or an action done to express ...
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(Definition ofblanketandstatementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I am not qualified to make ablanketstatementto the effect that there is a danger, but the matter needs investigating.
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It is ablanketstatementto cover many matters that raise deep moral and social judgments.
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To put out ablanketstatementlike that is likely to give a false impression.
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The only conclusion to be drawn from theirblanketstatementthat 512 will be the maximum is that that number of warheads will be deployed.
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Thisblanketstatementis made without a proper examination of the rent arrears situation.
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That sort ofblanketstatementis, therefore, most unhelpful.
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It is difficult to make ablanketstatement.
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We are not willing to accept a blandblanketstatementthat retaliation stops us having import controls.
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Different parts of hospitals clearly face different issues, and it would be wrong to make ablanketstatement.
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To say that such ablanketstatementcovers every proposal and every discussion within the document is straining the bounds of logic more than is justifiable.
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We got ablanketstatementthat there were areas where illegality should apply, but there was no attempt to explain, define or set out the rules.
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It is no good making ablanketstatementto the effect that women must get out of the labour market for ever once they have children.
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Coupling is much too complex for such ablanketstatementinstead it should be the shorter the better, in general.
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It has become devoid of meaning: it is ablanketstatementhinting at lunacy.
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The 1990 edition of the guidelines contained theblanketstatementthat "wine has no net health benefit".
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Merton also stated that noblanketstatementcategorically affirming or denying the practical feasibility of "all" social planning is warranted.
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By making such blanket statements we are in danger of comparing apples to oranges.
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He said that there was more merit in making sensible points based on the merits of a case than in making blanket statements, which do not ease the position.
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