Sentence examples for would have flatly from inspiring English sources

Had he been plainly asked to do the company that favour, he would have flatly refused; he had to be cheated into it.

Should it turn out, for instance, that original public understanding leads to unforeseen applications or results that we have good historical evidence to believe the authors did not intend, or would have flatly rejected had they known what we now know, an originalist might allow such actual or hypothetical intentions to override original understanding.

Previously, he and the musical's producers have flatly insisted that the show would open on March 15.

Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands have flatly refused.

Peyo's heirs have flatly dismissed such chatter.

By contrast, major Republican congressional leaders and all the presidential candidates have flatly rejected tax increases.

Senate Democrats and the President have flatly stated that any such bill is dead on arrival.

In other states, governors have flatly refused to participate.

The better result, he said would have been to declare flatly that "business methods are not patentable".

It is seen as so far beyond the pale that Mr Rasmussen this week said flatly that it would have no place in his government (necessarily a coalition, given Denmark's proportional electoral system).

However, had Mr. Strauss-Kahn been asked about the encounter and flatly denied it, it would have been more difficult for his lawyers to present a defense that a sexual act had been consensual.