First, they flatly refused to carry out their legal duty to appoint independent scrutineers for new executive elections. |
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However, village residents flatly denied he was involved in embezzlement, saying that it was a dirty plot to entrap the clergyman. |
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The local preacher, Avery, tried to get her to part with it to help fund the church and she flatly refused. |
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Hearing them flatly deliver quasi-Marxist slogans as a sort of pillow talk is a constant hoot. |
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That appeared to contradict a statement by the police yesterday morning which flatly denied having offered any compensation to the family. |
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She said it flatly, a matter-of-fact statement, completely without emotion. |
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Another analyst with a keen interest in the budget for over a decade said flatly the budget statement is nonsense. |
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The camera focuses again on the officials who continue reading at great length but flatly, bureaucratically, without interest. |
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He said it flatly, without emotion, but a muscle ticked in one side of his jaw. |
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These are half-truths and lies, which flatly contradict previous statements. |
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The department would also act as underwriter for people who are flatly refused cover by private firms. |
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For the many real world victims, the realities of domestic violence flatly contradict such stereotypes. |
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This is, however, flatly contradicted by historical review, current doctrine, and common practice. |
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We have thrown lots of ideas at the highways authority and they have flatly refused them all. |
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All of this evidence flatly contradicted the claims that there was a wave, trend, or epidemic of school violence. |
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In this full-length picture, her toddler grandson floats against a flatly painted, baby blue field. |
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Throughout, Baer laid the paint down flatly and evenly, and she made no effort to hide the texture of the canvas. |
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He appears to be the lone active, prominent major-league baseball player who has flatly admitted using them. |
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More importantly, however, the Court's statement flatly misdescribes what is going on here. |
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She flatly refused high office, for socio-political causes meant more to her. |
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But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges. |
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Painter John Wesley is known for his flatly painted, cartoonish canvases of figures and animals. |
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The claim was flatly denied by the Ministry of Defence, which said no UK warplanes had been on bombing missions. |
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What is going on in Vienna is flatly felonious behavior that is lifting billions of dollars from the pockets of American citizens. |
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Not only does this make no sense but under the language the party plans to readopt this year, it would be flatly unconstitutional. |
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I had just flatly refused to talk to anybody for a few days but Beverly came knocking at my door. |
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Something is wrong with our medical clinic if they're flatly refusing to perform a treatment that takes all of five minutes to complete. |
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But again, this has not been substantiated, on the contrary it was flatly refuted by one of the people we spoke to. |
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Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal. |
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The juxtaposition of my somewhat flatly morbid work with the life and vitality of the farm is quite provoking. |
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Initially, the request for the old box to be returned was flatly rejected as against the company's modernising policy. |
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Perez declared flatly that he had made a mistake bringing Queiroz to the club in the first place. |
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She stared at him flatly, tossing her head to get her hair out of her eyes. |
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With national dignity surging in his bosom, Wu flatly turned down the humiliating demand put forward by Montigny. |
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After several days of being sulky, Kate flatly refused to talk to me on Wednesday. |
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Reporters and editors are credulous, fearful, and flatly bamboozled. |
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Baggara tribes, usually held responsible for abductions, continue flatly to deny the mere existence of the phenomenon. |
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His hair was dyed red, pomaded, and slicked flatly back, what you might see on a woman impersonating a man in a musical about Oxford. |
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His personal adviser, Usama al-Baz, went even further in flatly ruling out any role for American troops in the region. |
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And late-term abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy are flatly illegal. |
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Marx, writing as a journalist observing the American civil war, analyses it flatly as a sectional conflict between Northern industrialism and Southern slave oligarchy. |
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Not surprisingly, Zakir flatly refused to comply with the order that demoted him to commander of Kandahar Province. |
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It is quite obvious that this council will try to get more tax from us each and every year, unless we say enough is enough and flatly refuse to pay any extra. |
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At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement. |
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Bewilderingly, Princess Émilie flatly, absolutely and incontrovertibly refuses to go to bed! |
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But Ms. Newman was not laughing when she stated flatly that it was not in her interest to jump into a job like this only to get them through a bad time and to move on. |
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However, western detectives flatly dismissed reports that Government's airship, the blimp, and other sophisticated radar technology were responsible for the seizure. |
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They have been cited as a spur to a recovery in business confidence, though the evidence of this is not clear-cut and, in the case of Japan, flatly contradictory. |
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The authorities have flatly denied using live cartridges, stating that their rifles have only been loaded with rubber bullets. |
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When he approached local experts in the city, they flatly refused. |
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When Gareth first asked if I wanted to give a pint, I flatly refused. |
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Nobody loves an unfeminine female who quarrels with her boss, who flatly contradicts the men around her, who insists upon the rightness of her own notions. |
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However, members flatly refused to accept such a blanket ruling. |
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His evidence not only flatly contradicted the testimony of the other defendants, it implicated the top echelons of the football club in a conspiracy to mislead the court. |
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Featuring many flatly painted coats of variously toned acrylic, Roberts' delicate grayish fields evoke shifts and gradations of dawn or evening light. |
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When I first saw the show, I was most excited about the bravura Red Highrise, but on returning, I grew more intrigued with other, more flatly painted works. |
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The 21 works shown here range in scale and medium from her signature cabinet-size egg temperas on panel to larger, flatly painted oils on canvas, which are the most recent. |
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The authorities in Augsburg flatly refused to speculate over what it was worth. |
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Food, jewelry and other vignettes were rather flatly painted, like signs. |
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Until this point has been clarified and discussed in detail, I flatly refuse to speak about any revision of the Financial Perspective. |
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The Working Group was invited not to flatly reject any proposal for increases in liability limits, but to explore avenues for further improving its earlier compromise on the matter. |
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Newcomers' being bawled at by an old-timer is flatly embarrassing. |
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In his rather dry and traditional expose on divine inspiration he flatly rejects that rigid literalism which makes the human author the typist of God. |
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The stoma ideally should not be placed near or around skinfolds, scars, or bony prominences, so that the pouching system can be adhered flatly to the skin. |
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The imam told her, flatly, that his wife's corpse was still inside their house, and he assured her that he would be quarantining himself in the home of his other wife, who owned the store. |
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Yet the Canadian Government has flatly refused to implement such health services in federal prisons, and no provincial or territorial government has yet taken steps to implement such health programs either. |
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Morocco, apart from now flatly rejecting any idea of partitioning the territory, has mainly expressed reservations concerning the terms and conditions of power-sharing between it and the Authority. |
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But he stated flatly that Grigorovich was a bad influence. |
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Gawain flatly refuses to be part of any act that will treat the queen shamefully. |
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Some of the Australians wanted to use Bodyline in retaliation, but Woodfull flatly refused. |
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Just to be sure, I double-checked with the Alberta Medical Association, family practice section, and I was told flatly that family physicians do not report cancer. |
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In the interview, Nakamoto flatly denied being the creator of Bitcoin. |
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When the doctor offered him a general anesthetic, he flatly refused. |
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Fiercest opposition came from Patrick McLoughlin's Department for Transport, which flatly opposed Manchester's desire to regulate local bus companies. |
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One letter may go into the round file because it flatly declares human-caused climate change to be a conspiracy. |
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Anything less than dramatic, sweeping economic sharing in the worldwide body of Christ today is flatly unbiblical, scandalously disobedient, heretical. |
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According to court documents, hock flatly denies the allegations. |
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But the National party has flatly rejected the allegation it infringed the rapper's work and says the backing came from an Australian-based production outfit. |
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Declan asked his workmate Steve Morrice for a loan but was turned down flatly. |
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All those efforts have been flatly rebuffed by the Eritrean authorities, whose attitude and conduct, moreover, have been disdainful, haughty and irresponsible. |
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For it seemed flatly impossible that different people should look exactly and undistinguishably alike. |
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The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party is demanding a fresh election administered by an independent interim government, which the ruling Awami League flatly rejects. |
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In fact he reverses the issue of religiophobia by stating flatly that those who are not against him are for him! |
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Before Audubon, ornithologists depicted birds flatly and schematically. |
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But the MoD last night flatly denied the allegations against Axon were of racial, sexual or violent abuse. |
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But most of theses intents to develop theses forests have failed flatly. |
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After recapitulating the current juncture in the capital of North Lebanon, Sheikh Shahhal said he flatly refused to see young Muslims being fought at army checkpoints. |
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During this period, spectator attendances dropped and media condemnation increased, but Simpson and Lawry flatly disregarded the public dissatisfaction. |
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