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What does squarely mean?

squarely

— adverb (= forthrightly, forthright) directly and without evasion; not roundabout to face a problem squarely the responsibility lies squarely with them spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point — adverb (= square) in a straight direct way looked him squarely in the eye ran square into me — adverb (= square) firmly and solidly hit the ball squarely the bat met the ball squarely planted his great bulk square before his enemy — adverb (= square) in a square shape a squarely cut piece of paper folded the sheet of paper square — adverb (= foursquare, straightforwardly) with firmness and conviction; without compromise he stood foursquare for religious liberty and toleration — C.G.Bowers dealt straightforwardly with all issues

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Simple sentences

Tom threw a pillow at Mary and the pillow hit her squarely in the face.

Movie subtitles

But I admire you and approve of you, because you face up everything squarely.

If you'd just face the facts squarely, as I did.

Talk now, Paul, and tell them that you're not responsible. that every bit of this doesn't rest squarely on your shoulders.

Well, Miss Allenby, I won fairly and squarely. and next week you'll become Mrs. Barry Lanfield.

I dropped by to talk to you man to man, so I could look you squarely in the eye.

He had fallen squarely on bus n. 77 from 5:26 am.

Yes, and here we are squarely in the middle, as is our underground warrior.

The glasses zero in on the ball and the framework manipulates your arms, allowing you to strike the spheroid with your cylinder squarely!

All 15,000 will concentrate squarely on the center of that line.

Now, at the risk of being unpopular. this reporter places the blame for all this squarely on you, the viewers.

Rubber Man has gotten it done. and now the pressure is squarely on Big Ern McCracken.

None of you can appreciate what it means to be in command of a ship until that responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders as it does on mine.

I've never looked a bosom squarely in the face before.

The end of a civil war that split Earthforce squarely down the middle. the death of President William Morgan Clark. the birth of an independent Mars. and the creation of a new Interstellar Alliance.

The country's squarely behind you.

I hardly think he'll stick his own neck squarely in the noose.

Oh, darling, why don't you face facts squarely as I did?

I peg the guilt squarely on Mr. Kogan.

Whichever way it is, the important thing is to face the situation squarely and recognize that this man you think you're in love with is no more to you than a mother substitute.

If you take the first step, it will put the burden squarely on his shoulders, and he will realize what a loving, forgiving wife you are.

During the next decade, the problems of overpopulation, of poverty and of militarism, must be met squarely, if we are to survive.

You go in there, and you look them squarely in the eye and you think of them sitting around the board table in their underwear.

The time has come for finger-pointing. and most of them are squarely aimed. at the boy's parents.

Thierry, Thierry, you know, it's been said that your clothes have a kind of overt, extreme sexual subtext, which is squarely at odds with the image of women as capable and independent of men.

I put the blame squarely where it belongs, on their mother.

The Rubber Man has gotten it done, and now the pressure is squarely on Big Ern McCracken.

The end of a civil war that split Earthforce squarely down the middle the death of President William Morgan Clark the birth of an independent Mars and the creation of a new interstellar alliance.

But they'd lessen if you faced the situation squarely.

I PUT THIS SQUARELY WHERE IT BELONGS. ON ME.

One hundred million dogs have placed their destiny squarely in our paws.

That put the case squarely on our turf.

I mean squarely- on the bedside table when I went to sleep.

The blame falls squarely on your shoulders.

But today we see reality looking us squarely in the eye and telling us that the Oslo Accords are dead. That Rabin is dead, that there is nothing to be done.

I think that falls squarely in the category of things that I brought into the marriage.

I'm sure that more than half of the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of his rider. - You're such a. - Chan.

But the thing that really relaxes a child is to have their big toe nails lodged squarely in your respective genitalia.

News and current affairs

Brazil's problems cannot be blamed on anything Brazil has done wrong; responsibility falls squarely on international financial authorities.

Unlike the Bush administration, caught downplaying the science, the IPCC squarely tells us that mankind is largely responsible for the planet's recent warming.

Current conventional wisdom places the blame squarely on the close ties that developed between policymakers and the financial industry in recent decades.

By contrast, today's official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.

And, for some European governments, it is a typical hands-off remedy that places the problem squarely in America's lap.

Kadyrov thinks that the referendum results put him squarely on the path to securing the Chechen presidency for himself.

Moreover, while it remains essential to attach policy conditions to IMF-supported programs, they should be focused squarely on solving a country's critical problems, so that the conditions will be relevant rather than intrusive.

Still, we need to face squarely the intergenerational issues at the core of today's economic dilemmas.

The intellectual's ethic is both exhilarating and harsh, for it places responsibility for thinking squarely on the thinker's shoulders.

The WEF's focus is squarely on the macro level.

But it shows that there is a will to put prioritization squarely at the center of attention.

The government's willingness to address squarely questions about shoddy infrastructure will be a key test of the genuineness of its supposed new found tolerance of freeish speech.

If security cooperation is to be a success, politically sensitive issues should be avoided, with the emphasis squarely on practical measures.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has put Africa squarely on the agenda of next week's G8 Summit.

That will require putting the issue of Syria squarely on the table.

By identifying squarely with the military-security apparatus headed by Ahmadinejad, Khamenei has alienated an important segment of the ruling clerical elite.

Last week, I resolved to speak out in a three-article series, published squarely in the heart of the liberal blogosphere, the Huffington Post.

Morell thus placed himself squarely within one of the two principal schools of thought in the policy debate on Syria (a debate that is articulated almost exclusively in geopolitical terms and ignores humanitarian issues).

Palestine's quest for statehood within the borders of June 4, 1967, falls squarely within international law.

Russia is poised somewhere between authoritarianism and totalitarianism; and, for all of China's recent economic progress, the rising Asian power remains squarely in the same camp.

Focusing squarely on structural reforms would allay some of the fears that China's rise has inspired in the rest of the world, while winning praise from the international business community.

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