"Some of these tools are patently ridiculous because they're just the wrong thing for the job -- the Faberge egg as tool," said John Reed Fox, a Massachusetts cabinet maker.
But her lawyer, David W. Kuhnsman, complained that the hearing was "patently unbalanced" because his client had not been given a chance to defend herself.
The move struck many people as patently partisan because Mr. Chávez regularly wore clothes made up of the national colors and patterned on the flag and used vast amounts of government resources to promote his re-election.
For years, judges hearing elder-abuse cases rejected arguments that arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts were patently unfair because they were signed by people who did not understand them or perhaps even realize they existed.
And so it was: on Tuesday, Firth claimed he had been sacked by his own company for claiming that $30,000 the project had received in funding from an undisclosed arts body was patently absurd because the SMOW was nothing more than a scam; a cover to raise money for the Sydney Writers Room, which doesn't receive arts funding.
But that is patently absurd because with the ability to secede comes disunion as an inevitable consequence.
She won the most "at-large delegates," which President Clinton slammed as patently unfair because they counted "five times as much as everybody else".
But the No-on-86 campaign website quotes the California State Conference of the NAACP as calling the tax "patently unfair" because it would be "especially burdensome on low-income smokers". Kris Deutschman, spokeswoman for the Yes-on-86 campaign, said voters should "be wary of what money is driving endorsements.
There are plenty of people out there who we are relatively certain have gobs of unpleasant things to say about me -- some of it reasonably accurate, because being human, I've made my fair share of blunders, and some of it patently false, because anyone who receives a degree of success or attention invariably suffers garden variety ill will -- just ask Martha Stewart.
Sam Brannen, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Associated Press that Bush's analogy between World War II and today is "patently false," because the stateless enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq "are not accountable to the same command-and-control structures that existed in Japan and Germany".
In today's opinion, however, the Court disregards the plain language of the statute not because its application would be patently absurd, but rather because, on the basis of its view of the legislative history, the Court is "fairly confident" that "FACA should not be construed to apply to the ABA Committee". Ante, at 465.
