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n. 1 (context legal English) testimony, either oral or written, provided during a proceeding in a court of law which describes the harmful effects produced by the actions of an accused or convicted party and suffered by the victim or others, offered especially for consideration by the court in deciding an appropriate punishment. 2 An analysis or study which describes the expected effects of a policy, project, or action being contemplated by a business or government organization.
Usage examples of "impact statement".
Before I ever heard word one about the PornFill, the environmental impact statement was already dummied up.
What a pity the Sierra Club hadn't been around then to force an environmental-impact statement.
If you want the kill, you also get to file the environmental-impact statement.
Because they're materials used in conjurations, I had to draft the environmental impact statement.
Those concerns evidently aren't shared by Penelas, Graham or other politicians who opposed an environmental-impact statement.
Frederick thumbed through the Environmental Impact Statement with little interest and moved on to the report written by the first ranger on the scene.
Just because he'd paid off the team doing the environmental-impact statement to ignore that little drainage problem that Sunnyvale was going to produce—.
It may be no coincidence that the Alliance Ecological Interplanetary Observation Union has chosen to request an environmental impact statement from you, not exactly the thing one would expect them to require of a military unit, if you follow me.
The spells that the warring siblings had unleashed upon each other were fired off in haste, impulsively, and without filing an Environmental Impact Statement beforehand.
I passed off the request for a preliminary environmental impact statement by saying that paper producers would be required to abide by existing laws.
He even claimed that there was some kind of old Federal Road crossing the proposed road section, and that a Federal environmental impact statement would be needed before construction could continue.