Even if you could tweak the Ptolemaic with the addition of elliptical motion and get something broadly accurate to the degree of the Kepler model it would still be doing it with the entirely unknown "well they all spin about one thing we can see and one we can't" which plainly fails the Razor test.

So with Plan A plainly failing, Bradley has finally switched at to Plan B. His own revised strategy was on view in last night's WMUR/CNN debate, in which Bradley pointedly went after Gore in a way he has not done previously.

B.A.T., which has argued that Hoylake is responsible for its regulatory difficulties, said in a statement that the panel ruling "throws a lifeline to a bid that was plainly failing on its merits both before shareholders and the U.S. regulators."

In a July 2005 opinion that led the prosecution to propose an auction, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the government's original plan for the sale of Mr. Kaczynski's possessions "plainly fails to serve the victims and their families."

Do stations that make so much money using the public airwaves, but so plainly fail to educate viewers on the issues facing them, really deserve to have their renewals rubber-stamped?

The Senate majority leader, George J. Mitchell, said the initiatives were needed because the Administration's offer of $219 million in various kinds of aid "plainly fails to meet the challenge of supporting the Solidarity-led Government's efforts to make meaningful economic and political freedom available to all Polish citizens."

And her wand was held in a hand plainly failing.

A federal appeals court panel then wrote "This curious statement plainly fails to account for all transactions involving the assets during the eight years they were held in the clerk of court's custody.

He was plainly failing.

It would plainly fail the Supreme Court's test.