Giuliani had not only given the governor innumerable causes for offense, but as Senator he would also plainly challenge Pataki for supremacy in the state party.
From the start, Zapatero identified equality as a defining characteristic of a modern democracy, and it's only partly because he plainly enjoys challenging the macho conservativism that has dominated his country since the days of Ferdinand and Isabella.
The danger with all this is that we grow too comfortable with a sort of vagueness, and find ourselves sounding like Alan Partridge: "God is a gas … but not a small gas, like Calor Gas". But the persistent, pernicious notion of the male God is one that plainly needs challenging, not least because depictions of God as female still feel oddly subversive (even when Alanis Morissette is involved).
We spoke plainly and challenged each other when the discussions became too esoteric or theoretical.
We plainly face challenges, many of which are not unique to the movie business.
The challenged enactment plainly undertakes to raise a conclusive presumption that all material gifts within six years of death were made in anticipation of it and to lay a graduated inheritance tax upon them without regard to the actual intent.
History invites us to class where many of these questions are truthfully and plainly answered--assumptions challenged and discoveries heretofore unknown revealed.
On other occasions, the Court has concluded that the challenged measure is plainly constitutional most of the time and reserved the as-applied option for the rare instances when constitutional issues might arise, implying that what differentiates an as-applied action is its narrow scope.
A correspondent whom I respect has (gently) challenged me to say plainly what I think Cyprus should do — leaving aside all questions about political realism.
As to whether all pending executions should now be delayed, the appeals court all but challenged the justices to state plainly whether that was the case.
Sir Peter Soulsby, Leicester's directly-elected mayor, called the challenge "plainly daft".
