Sentence examples for flatly turn down from inspiring English sources
Insurers could not, we were told, flatly turn down claims on the basis that a seatbelt was not being worn at the time.
The network was politely, but flatly, turned down.
They said they had never heard of an independent swim school and flatly turned down her application for a $1.2 million loan.
In 1989, when Mr. Dees, then a professor at the Harvard Business School, first proposed a course in social entrepreneurship, he was flatly turned down.
Five years later, the Met's curator of paintings was almost dismissed for proposing to buy a Cézanne from the Armory Show, and the museum flatly turned down a Gauguin it was offered as a gift in 1915.
The situation has got even worse with the county's flagship academies, apparently, with requests for shared services flatly turned down by governors and other vested private finance initiative (PFI) bodies.
Sole Power, being older, more established and "the family pet", will carry the first colours of Sabena Power, who owns both, but Lynam flatly turned down an invitation to compare and contrast his three winners here, the other being the two-year-old Anthem Alexander.
First, turn down the volume.
Turn down the resolution.
