Sentence examples for A flat denial from inspiring English sources

One was a flat denial of any wrongdoing.

Asked if grammar schools improve social mobility, Husbands makes a flat denial: "No.

To each and every accusation of corruption, Fifa gives a flat denial or a "not proven".

Once one company issued a flat denial, the others felt they had to follow suit, he said.

For all their economic success, the Japanese are uncomfortable around their Asian neighbours, prone to condescension, guilt or a flat denial of their ugly history.

Then, last week, Fox News reported that agency officials had refused desperate requests for help from operatives under fire in Libya, and the agency issued a flat denial.

The most recent chapter in the baseball steroid scandal has produced a rare flat denial.

At the daily White House briefing for reporters, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes issued what the Washington Post called "an unusually flat denial". "That story is not correct," Speakes said.

But not before she performs one last show, "Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin' Over and Out," from April 2 to 6. Mere mention of the word "retirement" drew a gasp and flat denial from Ms. Stritch, who is 88.

This was met by an operation of flat denial from Labour loyalists in the media, the latest example of which came in last week's New Statesmen where the chief political commentator of the Independent Steve Richards wrote this bewildering end to a really interesting piece about the decline of parliamentary power and the rise of the civil servant.

It wasn't an admission of guilt, exactly, but it was at least a softening of his customary flat denial of any wrong-doing.