Not only has Alessandro Nencini, the presiding judge of the Florence appeals court, apparently resorted to the same tortured logic as his predecessors; he has also stated things as fact that are manifestly and provably wrong.
But the Strasbourg court unanimously dismissed his claim as inadmissible, describing it as "manifestly ill-founded".
A three-judge panel, headed by Lord Justice Hughes, was unable to say his sentence was "arguably either manifestly excessive or wrong in principle".
It's like Dorothy says: "If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises!" The awkward problem with Lib Dem manifestos, given recent experience, is that they are manifestly flawed.
This claim has not been recognised by any other country and is manifestly illegal.
Meanwhile, the possibility that Mr Juncker might now offer the financial services job to the new British commission nominee, Jonathan Hill, is variously seen as an olive branch, which it manifestly would be, or a dastardly Brussels power grab, which it isn't.
David O'Byrne from the United Voice union said: "We've got to remember they were told to provide recommendations within the current funding envelope, which people acknowledge is manifestly not enough to resolve the challenge".
An exception would be made if the national court had "manifestly erred" or if the case raised a serious question of interpretation.
A former member of the Bank's monetary policy committee – the American Adam Posen – conducts a manifestly undisguised assault on the centralised way in which Sir Mervyn King allegedly runs the Bank, having already on many occasions differed from him on policy.
AMONG the "manifestly silly and occasionally harmful positions" espoused by libertarians, "the idea of spontaneous order might be the silliest and most harmful of all", says Damon Linker in a much-read post at the Week.
His rooms were loud, too, with clocks, advising him whether he was making good use of his time or not: meaning whether he was moving Britain another inch or so in what was manifestly the best direction.That direction was socialist.
