| The local preacher, Avery, tried to get her to part with it to help fund the church and she flatly refused. |
| That appeared to contradict a statement by the police yesterday morning which flatly denied having offered any compensation to the family. |
| Another analyst with a keen interest in the budget for over a decade said flatly the budget statement is nonsense. |
| However, village residents flatly denied he was involved in embezzlement, saying that it was a dirty plot to entrap the clergyman. |
| She said it flatly, a matter-of-fact statement, completely without emotion. |
| The camera focuses again on the officials who continue reading at great length but flatly, bureaucratically, without interest. |
