Sentences with phrase «plain fact of the matter»

The plain fact of the matter is that the UK's statutory and extra-statutory provision is not only out of keeping with the original parliamentary objectives of the Road Traffic Act 1930 but it also fails to meet the minimum standards imposed by the Sixth Motor Insurance Directive 2009 / 103 / EC.

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The events in themselves are just things that happened, plain matter of fact, like the events announced in the B.B.C. news this morning.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

But at the core of the matter is the plain fact that to name and recognize our lack of innocence is to describe ourselves as accountable for who we are and for what we know.

critics tended on the whole to say: strip off the interpretation so far as possible; it only tells us what some early Christians thought or believed; the residue will be plain matter of fact.

So it is a matter of plain fact that Christianity molded what came to be called Europe (whose original name, after all, was «Christendom»), but to say so does not by itself tell us whether that shaping of European culture through the medium of Christian ideas was a good thing or a bad thing to begin with, let alone whether those ideas speak to us now.

The plain truth of the matter is that it's extremely difficult to sustain winning season after winning season in the NBA, in fact no teams has done that like the Spurs have over the last 20 years.

The fact that I am moving in two weeks and just plain don't want any more books right now, and really, truly want to get rid of books doesn't seem to matter.

It is as plain as credit cards get, as a matter of fact — offering nothing more than a simple line of credit.

Coming from him, matter of fact and disarmingly plain spoken, it is fact.