And it is patently impossible, they maintained, for a country to be independent if it does not control the administration of law within its own borders.
Government backers fall back on the cost: the £30bn bill is "patently absurd", they say, as it is to those who always think redistribution to the low-paid is a waste of taxpayers' money.
I assumed that people and facilities would be top quality and it was patently obvious they weren't". Deals to sign players were already well-advanced when he arrived, including Jô.
(And the subway out of Beverly Hills in the 1980s, for that matter). If they were patently offensive then, they are indefensible now.
Whatever else they were, they patently were not that.
If Gawker's editors deem the story worth $200,000 to break – as they patently must, for the only alternative is they take their readers for fools – couldn't they find it in their budget?
"The problem with [Huth's] allegations (in addition to the fact that they are patently false) is that they are 40 years old; and therefore, are inherently unreliable," Singer wrote in his response.
"It's going to put people out there who think they're comedians when they patently aren't," he says.
Saturday saw Sister Sledge minus their lead singer ("contrary to what they keep telling us, they patently don't have all their sisters with them", said Alexis Petridis in his review), Jessie Ware, New Order and Two Door Cinema Club.
Coming hot on the heels of a Sister Sledge without lead singer Kathy – contrary to what they keep telling us, they patently don't have all their sisters with them – it's not entirely clear what relationship the Earth, Wind & Fire Experience bear to the actual Earth, Wind & Fire, but whoever it is singing has a falsetto you could perform surgery with.
