In response, Mr. Mills wrote that Mr. Levy had "not followed the plain words of the order".
Michael Sheehan's conclusions, expressed in the plain words of a former soldier, will not win literary prizes or universal assent.
As far as he was concerned, Zwingli was an "enthusiast" who did not take the plain words of Scripture seriously.
The president simply couldn't seem to escape his professorial past, to convey his passion and convictions in the plain words of plain folks, and to breach the chasm between the People's House and people's houses.
That ignores the plain words of the most reliable and non-partisan judge of these things — the Congressional Budget Office — which said in July that the Affordable Care Act doesn't add to the debt, it lowers the debt.
This began two years ago, when the Supreme Court disregarded the plain words of the Second Amendment and overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban, deciding that the amendment gave individuals in the district, not just militias, the right to bear arms.
A lower court ruled against Mr. Olson's clients in March, but it seemed to be holding its nose as it did so, saying it was bound by the plain words of McConnell rather than the logic of Citizens United.
Obviously, in an age of humanist commitment to "evangelical" reform, this opinion implied trust in the plain words of Scripture; but for Agrippa, it also meant trust in the authority of the works attributed to the "ancient theologians" (prisci theologi), Platonists, and Cabalists.
Still, Kennedy may harbor skepticism about the law known as Obamacare, and he acknowledged during arguments the possibility that the challengers could "prevail on the plain words of the statute".
