It is patently unfair that however hard a teacher works, however well they meet their objectives and improve teaching and learning, they are still denied pay progression on things irrelevant to the quality of teaching in the classroom".
While there is a degree of truth in this in certain cases, other players are having to be deployed out of position – Vurnon Anita at left-back, for instance – while some clearly try hard but are patently not good enough.
What its doing (and not just to him, but all of its stars) is patently unfair, and it is becoming harder for the NCAA to sweep it under the rug.
Also, deciding retroactively to broadly subsidize tuition would be patently unfair to those students who worked hard to earn tuition money or pay off their loans.
Fifty Shades of Grey patently revisits "Bluebeard", and although it is extremely hard to see what the reasons are for the book's extraordinary success, it certainly provides evidence of a widespread naturalisation – normalisation – of sadomasochistic fantasy.
What about the idea that women are too emotional to be hard-headed scientists? A. It is just patently absurd to say women are more emotional than men.
Yet that phrasing is patently vague — useful when a writer wants to come down hard on a steroid user, but markedly fishy when applied to some of the more ethically specious past inductees.
At a time when black Americans were denied basic fairness across the board, the theory that hard work could trump racism was both noble and patently false.
"I can't tell you how many New Englanders, die-hard Celtics fans, tell me something that's patently untrue: 'My God, you nailed Red Auerbach,' " he said.
It was by far the hardest Gaborik had checked anyone all season, and it was patently illegal.
