Few people here flatly oppose change, and most acknowledge its benefits.

Many of his senior aides say they flatly oppose such a course.

They are flatly opposed on the ground they can give one country a cost advantage over another.

Many environmental groups are not flatly opposed to burning.

Some of them are flatly opposed to Selig as commissioner.

He flatly opposes financing of religious institutions with funds from outside France.

More than half of all Germans remain flatly opposed to giving up their marks, polls show.

The national pilots' union flatly opposes any sale to a foreign carrier.

Administration officials flatly oppose such legislation, saying it would jeopardize trade and hurt consumers.

Few legislators have been flatly opposed, however, and the skeptical voices were fragmented.