Some flatly declared they would not consider it.
One Hollywood Internet site, thehotblog.com, flatly declared, "Valkyrie is dead".
"It is a fascist group," flatly declares one senior Gulf official.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report on Tuesday flatly declared Mr. Akin "unelectable".
At one point in my conversation with Lévy, he flatly declared that France "has no refugees".
Britain's three main political parties flatly declared that they would not countenance a currency union with an independent Scotland.
In his report to Sanchez, Ryder flatly declared that "there were no military police units purposely applying inappropriate confinement practices".
On Tuesday, Mr. Paladino flatly declared that his first campaign for political office would be his last.
One of the Spanish sports papers had flatly declared this meeting to be the best game in the world.
The closest analog from a fund company comes from Massachusetts Financial Services, which flatly declares: "We invented the mutual fund".
A 2003 book by John Russell Silver, "History of the Treatment of Spinal Injuries," flatly declares that "the spinal cord cannot be repaired".
