Sentence examples for flatly ignored from inspiring English sources

Indeed, regulators are sometimes flatly ignored: the plant in Perthshire was approved in December despite objections from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.

He flatly ignored an effort by Secretary General Kofi Annan to ban smoking in the United Nations headquarters, saying Mr. Annan did not own the building.

Her frustration was palpable as the men failed in tasks because they had brushed aside her suggestions or flatly ignored her.

For Surono, the Indonesian government's head volcanologist — whose warnings were flatly ignored by Mr. Maridjan — the guardian's death, along with those of others in his village, was the result of hubris.

While claiming to faithfully apply precedents, the Court instead flatly ignored and re-wrote them.

Browner and many other current NFL players contacted for this story declined to comment or flatly ignored questions about pot.

Rolland flatly ignores him, so we have no idea what that was.

The problem with these arguments is that they flatly ignore or reject outright the best advice of America's national security leadership.

The worrisome question now is whether the ethics panel has promulgated a loophole for flatly ignoring appearances of conflict of interest.

Since hearing the news of Simon's suicide, Adele wants nothing more to do with him and flatly ignores his request – delivered by Camille – to get the last bus out of Dodge with him.

He is aiming to be chosen one more time by the voters -- naturally becoming the oldest re-elected governor -- not so much to defy time as to flatly ignore its accumulation.