11.   One option is another flat denial.

12.   Small, already swamped with calls from reporters, issued a flat denial of the story.

13.   Coles issued a flat denial to a report carried by a South Korean news agency Wednesday that an additional Patriot missile unit would be deployed in South Korea.

14.   Coles also issued a flat denial of a report carried by a South Korean news agency Wednesday that an additional Patriot missile unit would be deployed in South Korea.

15.   You can get, or give, a flat refusal, flat denial, or flat rejection, but NOT a flat acceptance or a flat decision.

16.   That brought a flat denial from the CCM, which said police were investigating.