Word: outright
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...major disagreement is the possible return to Afghanistan by the former monarch, King Zahir Shah, to serve as an interim ruler. Jamiat leaders reject the suggestion outright because they regard the King as a feudal holdover as well as accountable for the steady growth of Soviet involvement in the country until his ouster in 1973. "Free elections will have their limits," says Massoud. "Even if one of the other mujahedin parties were to propose it, we would not agree to people who have betrayed this country having a chance to participate...
...campaigns in utopia. But that's because this republic is run on different principles than Plato's. An American election is a conversation. It tells us what the parties and the voters are willing to say and hear. If it does so with a minimum of muck and outright lying, it has done its job relatively well. This one has. Bring on Dan Quayle and the A.C.L.U. cards...
While the Crimson (4-1 overall, 4-0 Metro Region) is one of five teams already guaranteed a spot in the eight-team New England Championships, a victory over Boston University tomorrow at Soldiers Field could also give Harvard the top seed in the tournament and the Metro title outright...
...window in Scotland, the flash of the May Isle Lighthouse, eight miles out in the North Sea. On that island there are still keepers, but most lighthouse have now been automated. The buildings that the keepers and their families used to live in, when they haven't been destroyed outright, are mostly left empty, unprotected from vandals, storms and decay...
Nozick said that an attempt by God to communicate proof of His existence might involve stating this outright to people or by "some underlying trend of the universe," such as the motion of elementary particles. Neither method is foolproof, though, since an outright statement could come from aliens and the motion of particles could occur as an aberrance. At present, he said, no method for such a communication has been devised...