Sentence examples for flatly turned down from inspiring English sources

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.

The hope is it could be difficult for Republican leaders to flatly turn down this compromise if leading Latino Democrats — such as Reps.

Insurers could not, we were told, flatly turn down claims on the basis that a seatbelt was not being worn at the time.

Dewey flatly turned him down.

Zuckerberg, already showing signs of the single-minded focus that was to become his trademark, flatly turned them down in order to concentrate on his studies at Harvard.

When Boeing came to local union leaders with the offer, they flatly turned it down.