For all the predictable party-line backing from his team and the management, who could scarcely say different, there can only have been disquiet when players were omitted to accommodate someone who was patently not justifying his place in playing terms.
The upshot, the author argues, is that while the world appears to be taking a more serious look at public health, "anxiety over pandemic preparedness" makes it "easier for national governments to take actions which exceeded international norms and to justify patently protectionist measures as legitimate responses to disease".
More ominously, the resolution includes a line in its preamble that was inserted by Russia to avoid any possibility that Britain and the US could claim – as they did with Iraq – that the security council had justified the use of military force when it had patently not done so.
What he has disclosed is patently in the public interest and as a whistleblower his actions were justified.
"In effect, the FAA justified its inaction by claiming to have only received 18 oil fume reports from airlines over ten years, even though this is patently untrue," Anderson noted.
Using the moral logic of the world you yourself have invented to justify your opinions is both patently and comically bananas, and also a grand feat of self-validation.
The influential Saudi scholar Salman al-'Awdah – whom I wrote about a couple of years back on Cif – issued a call last month denouncing al-Qaida and its supporters in very strong terms: Do not attempt to reinterpret the faith so as to justify acts that are clearly and patently evil.
Helen had visited the museum when she first moved to Los Angeles, thrilled by the city's oddities in the way, she now knew, so many new immigrants were — as if kitsch could justify their decision to move to this patently unglamorous place.
Yet, he continued, "there is patently no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious racial discrimination which justifies this classification".
