He had promised to filibuster it if it retained the provision immunizing telecom companies from lawsuits arising from the companies' compliance with Administration requests — orders, really — to coöperate in patently illegal activity.
They aim to show that the fundamental aboutness of thought is, as Fodor (1987) cleverly put it, "really something else"—viz., something patently naturalistic even if it requires some effort to see that this is the case.
A pernicious rumor that's been around awhile and persistent one in pop culture, but it's patently false: there is really not part of the brain that doesn't have a function.
Although her mother and brother, James, don't really believe she ran away, there is something patently more appealing about the possibility that she is alive somewhere, simply hiding, than the idea that she is dead.
Do we really have to go through the reasons that is patently untrue?
Try to avoid the Mansplain: if the solution to the problem or explanation of the phenomena seems patently obvious to you, it was probably really obvious to the people before you.
"I don't really care about that," he said of Kriss Akabussi's patently vulnerable national mark 47.82sec.
Because Christina and Aaron were unconditionally open and willing to engage with people they did not really know and to embrace attitudes and assumptions with which they were patently unfamiliar.
The outragees are not concerned with whether Mitchell has really offended the entire country – as has been claimed by Nicky Morgan, the women's minister (patently wrong, since he hasn't offended me).
She's patently aware of modern art, au fait with Munch and Warhol, and is making art that really matters to her, instead of just being a celebrity show-off.
