The statements drew a mild rebuke from senior members of the Singapore government, who attempted to publicly clarify that the Elected President has only "custodial powers" and not "executive powers".

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski publicly clarified that Oregon does not officially appoint a "state climatologist" in response to Oregon State University's George Taylor's use of that title.

In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Mr. Arafat had told him by phone that he had given orders to avoid acts of violence and that he would "publicly clarify" that position.

"The government needs to urgently investigate the situation, determine whether he is being held in secret detention, contrary to national and international law, and publicly clarify his whereabouts."

During June 2005 David Gobel, CEO and Co-founder of Methuselah Foundation offered Technology Review $20,000 to fund a prize competition to publicly clarify the viability of the SENS approach.

They did not expect Kelia Cummins to raise such a ruckus by calling elected officials, lawyers, judges and advocacy groups that top city education officials would be forced to publicly clarify the college application rules.

In the meantime, the U.S. should publicly clarify its own conclusions on the crucial issue of Palestinian representation in the peace process.

Later he publicly clarified that he did not witness the male human extraterrestrial leaving or entering any spacecraft.

So I call on you today to clarify publicly that committees will not delay or suppress debate on these sensitive matters, and I would equally urge the Commission to do likewise.