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A fantastic player and a lovely, lovely person, the most gentle gentleman.' An hour after our first meeting, his team having been soundly beaten by the beach-football world champions from Brazil, Cantona re-emerges from the shower.
The Washington Post has yet to correct its contention that the NSA and FBI are "tapping directly" into the servers of internet companies, though that simplistic characterization has been soundly denied by Google, Facebook, and others.
Cooper said as much when he identified the forward as the fundamental reason why his team were so soundly beaten, and on a muggy evening came a display to remind people why five years ago he was being signed by Everton and deemed good enough to play in the Premier League.
THAT WAS THEN; Sinn Fein is now not only in diligent Ministerial panoply without even a.38 changing hands, but its candidates have also romped home in both recent elections as the bigger NI nationalist party, soundly flogging what party spokespersons regard contemptuously as a dying SDLP horse.
Donald Trump, the television personality and real-estate tycoon, dismissed the prospects of another campaign by Romney, the party's 2012 nominee who was soundly defeated by Obama four years after losing out to John McCain for the nomination.
But for now, moses basket soundly rejected, my wife and I are taking two-hour shifts throughout the night; one sleeping while the other cradles him in another room.
Hundreds of marchers carried signs that read "Promise Kept" on one side and "Thank you Governor Cuomo" on the other.In 2009, the last time the bill was sent to Albany, it was rejected soundly.
I shared a row with a father who kept threatening to "knock [his son] in the head" if he didn't go to sleep; when we finally landed the boy was sleeping soundly , and the father issued similar threats regarding his slowness to rouse.
In the final round, Hamzah Haz, the leader of the moderately Islamist United Development Party, soundly defeated Akbar Tandjung, the speaker of parliament and the head of Suharto's old party, Golkar.
The National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen has, after all, been soundly defeated by Mr Chirac at the polls.
The ranks of the rich are set to be thinned in coming years but perhaps the wealth of those that remain will be more soundly based.
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The adverb "soundly" primarily functions to modify verbs , indicating the manner in which an action is performed. It often describes actions done thoroughly, completely, or deeply, as supported by Ludwig's examples of being "soundly beaten" or "soundly rejected".
Expression frequency: Very common
