And, of course, Mitt Romney made statements — about the 47 percent, about Benghazi — that he clearly thought were smart and well-informed, but were in fact flatly false.
Posters blanket bulletin boards and student newspapers at these and other campuses proclaiming the facts flatly: 2 of 3 students do not drink on the big party nights; 55percentt of students consume fewer than five drinks when they drink.
"Their facts were flatly wrong.
Now and then, however, it degenerates into crowd hysteria.In extreme cases, the views of other investors are taken seriously even when flatly contradicted by such facts as may be available.
He didn't call for faith to inspire public policy; in fact, he stated flatly, "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute".
Now standing before the Roman governor with his back ripped open and bleeding, Jesus flatly refused to relinquish the fact that the Government of God is for here and now.
George Packer wrote in his 2005 book, The Assassin's Gate, that Senor "stood up at daily press conferences" and issued statements "that were usually at odds with the facts, on occasion flatly untrue, and often in direct contradiction to statements made a day or a week earlier -- all the while insisting that American policy remained firm and the violence was sporadic, minor and under control".
I wrote that sentence as flatly as I could, but in fact it makes my biographer's pulse race wildly.
"Theoretical notions of humanity and religion," he flatly declared, "cannot shake the commercial fact that their labor is of great value and cannot be dispensed with".
In fact, many historians insist – flatly contradicting Isis propaganda – that the post-first world war Arab nation states have proved remarkably resilient.
