You should have refused his request flatly.

He flatly refused to let me in.

President Barack Obama s recent speech on the Middle East is a further display of America s declining influence in the region. The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.

The State party indicates that the authors' principal complaint relates to the supposed inability of the defence to question its experts during the oral proceedings, the remainder of the complaints being subsidiary, and adds that the authors' assertions are flatly contradicted by the record of the oral proceedings.

Now, however, international acceptance of Iran as a nuclear threshold state, together with the threat emanating from imploding Arab neighbors, flatly contradicts Netanyahu s assumptions about the conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to offer painful concessions to the Palestinians. Someone clearly looks likely to fall into a strategic trap, but who?

Back in 1997 1998, during the Asian crisis, the G 7 flatly rejected Japan s proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund. Now the IMF has even accepted a minority lender role, with the bulk of assistance coming from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a new institution often viewed as an embryonic European Monetary Fund.

Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question. He even retracted his confession to the CCP s anti graft agency, blaming mental stress for his admission that he accepted bribes from a man he called soulless in court.