"An apt comment, Commander, considering the nature of the issue which brought you here."

Mr Poettering made the apt comment that the presidencies form a six-month chain.

In the preface, he makes an apt comment about travel and history:

It is perhaps an apt comment for a candidate whose party is registering about 37 percent of the vote in the public opinion polls.

Ms. Stein's work is an apt comment on the dangers of human interference, even when the results are sculpturally engaging.

The spectacular unreality of these landscapes is at once mesmerizing and alienating, and a savagely apt comment on the desert city itself.

He evaded another probe of Daniel's with a non-answer, then made a particularly apt comment on the press secretary that had Alan roaring with laughter.

While typically nonsensical and fragmented, these speech events can occasionally strike the individual as apt comments on-or summations of-their thoughts at the time.

The words of the Johannine Jesus, 'I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly', are in the end apt comment on this story.

Proceeding at a leisurely gait, she points out pretty architectural details (long piazzas, hidden gardens) and makes apt comments on the eccentricities of the proud old families.

Translation: No Punching Cubs catcher Michael Barrett might have offered the most apt comment in last March's World Baseball Classic.

This review is not the place to take up the cudgel against purism or spelling reform, but I could not resist adducing such apt comments as can be found in this work.

Cooper Edgecombe showed himself in a vastly different light while thus engaged, his shrewd questions, his apt comments, quite effectually removing the far from agreeable doubts born of his earlier words and demeanour.

Perhaps the most apt comment, after Britain's 5-0 defeat by France, the holders, in Bayonne, came from Tony Pickard, who said 'It was a tragedy that this match wasn't begin shown on television back home'.

Another contribution to the persuasive reality of the game is the work of play-by-play announcers who have recorded a wealth of dialogue, from apt comments on anything that might happen on the court to little stories about the players.

There were big men of failed genius like Benjamin Robert Haydon, represented by his wonderfully apt comment on the impatience with which clubmen waited for their turn to read the news during the run-up to the Reform Bill of 1832.

We must say to the citizens – I refer to your apt comments with respect to the referendum in France – that no country in this world and no European country, not even a highly industrialised country, will be able to meet the challenges of the 21st century alone.