Posner is the cart-before-horse guy, Heymann says: This president, the first to do so in my fifty years of political awareness, flatly claims a right to ignore any statute that he thinks stands in the way of unchecked powers to deal with terrorism.
At one point, Cotton flatly claims that former Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his seat because he "endorsed immigration principles".
OfferPal is run by Anu Shukla she and I have sat down before, where she flatly claimed that most of her offer inventory was unique (it was actually brokered from MemoLink, a company down the street from us in Denver).
The ads supported by a variety of front groups, including the Center for Union Facts and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, flatly claim that the new Employee Free Choice Act amendment to current law takes away the secret ballot.
Russia flatly claimed it was hitting only IS, despite its own data and images contradicting this, before eventually saying it was targeting "terrorists", a blanket term used by Assad's government to refer to all armed opposition groups. .
But they flatly rejected claims he was acting on orders from the top or that he was a "cog in the machine" who could not get out.
She flatly rejected claims that the security services, particularly the feared, paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) implicated in numerous so-called "crossfire" killings, were beyond constitutional or parliamentary control.
Human-rights activists fear that, instead of trying to reform the police, the government prefers to co-opt them, with an eye eventually to imposing Brotherhood loyalists.The interior minister, Muhammad Ibrahim, often described as close to the Brotherhood, has flatly denied claims of police brutality, even when displayed on YouTube, and has also played down the extent of the strike.
First, he flatly dismisses claims about the great antiquity of certain monuments in India that allegedly refute the Bible's chronology and of certain records that name people who lived before Adam.
Exxon flatly denied claims made in the report, suggesting that the nonpartisan IEEFA ― funded mostly by large philanthropic foundations ― is serving as a shill for "anti-oil activists".
Invariably it is the prelude to some flatly incredible claim - "you see," science has proved that four out of five cases of sandpaper elbows are caused by the wrong soap," or "you see, triple-sealing pre-bents the triple-strength vitamins from getting stale".
