To their credit, British civil servants expressed this more subtly than the senior French bureaucrat who flatly dismissed the whole concept of free data on these grounds.
A coalition of more than 100 environmental organizations has flatly rejected the plan as far too little.
In the aftermath of that ruling, which strictly limited judges' power to increase sentences, lower courts have issued more than three dozen rulings, sometimes flatly contradictory, in federal cases.
She describes herself culturally as "somewhere in the middle area," but flatly predicts that her children "will be more Dutch than me".
During the GOP debates Gingrich -- who is polling in South Carolina at nearly 20%, more formidable than the 10% he received in New Hampshire -- flatly rejected mass deportation as a solution to America's broken immigration system.
He says flatly that for the next four years "the Soviet Union will possess more missiles than the U.S".
On more than one occasion, Rodriguez refused to flatly deny that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq "from the beginning" — a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion in March 2003.
Max might be symbolic of his era, but he's never really much more than that, his private persona remaining as flatly doctrinaire as his wooden public pronouncements.
When Bush in mid-February called on the Iraqi people to overthrow Hussein, he was basing his request more on hope than on information, but officials now flatly state, privately that they don't expect Hussein to remain in power very long after the end of the war.
