It's a plain statement of his understanding.

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That is a very plain and categorical statement.

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The club statement makes it plain that the board were concerned that the team would fail to clinch promotion.

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The nonlogo logo is a plain white spot, a statement against corporate branding.

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Beyond that, the plain fact is that Barak's statement was wrong.

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"These allegations are false and just plain hurtful, " Jon Gosselin said in a statement.

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Many people may think this next statement to be idealistic, naive or just plain wrong.

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And it was pretty plain from the contributions to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon's difficult Commons statement on the issue on Monday that they are ready to defy the prime minister over this "step too far".

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The government is not blaming FirstGroup, but implicit in the minister's statement is that FirstGroup's risk projections were either over-ambitious or just plain wrong.

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Lord Goodhart told the BBC that what was "certainly unfortunate, to say the least, is that there is what seems to be a plain inconsistency between what Margaret McDonagh told us in the Neill Committee and what, according to the latest statement, appears to be the case".

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