Oliver Brown and other black parents who tried to enroll their children in all-white Topeka schools were met with flat-out refusals.
In three years, Mr. Frye said, the assignments have met with only one flat-out refusal.
"It's back to just a flat-out refusal to move," Mike Remlinger, the Braves' player representative, said in Atlanta.
Each reacted with various degrees of enthusiasm: some responded with a polite peck on the cheek, an actorly faux make-out, the full goods, or an (awkward) flat-out refusal.
"Our feeling is that there will not be any other agreement". This is not only a rebuke of the president's declaration that Iran has violated the spirit of the deal; it is also, for now, a flat-out refusal to renegotiate it or negotiate an add-on.
The flat-out refusal to let the film be screened suggested to me that the distributors – the little-known "Ballpark Film Distributors" – were now on damage limitation mode.
Their problem, which they simply can't acknowledge, is their own inability or flat-out refusal to take on the task with which Lennon has challenged them — and all of us.
He says that his 70-year-old mother complains constantly about her grandkids' use of technology, and the grandkids in turn complain about their grandmother's flat-out refusal to text (or even to turn on her cellphone most of the time).
It's a common refrain, the usual condemnation of a brutal act by Islamists inspired by religious ideology, by their own admission, and the flat out refusal by well meaning liberals to even consider that such brutality could be inspired by religion.
No just God would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day". It's a common refrain, the usual condemnation of a brutal act by Islamists inspired by religious ideology, by their own admission, and the flat out refusal by well meaning liberals to even consider that such brutality could be inspired by religion.
