Today there's at least 195 countries that exist in the world and at face value, it seems like there isn't anywhere to go besides the world's oceans if you want to get away from all of them.
Some legal experts and defense advocates see the string of recent not guilty verdicts as a sign that jurors and judges are less inclined to take what the FBI says in court at face value.
Nonetheless, while there have always been complaints among fans, the Chinese public seems to have long gotten used to the idea of having to pay far more than the face value for a hot ticket.
But a report this summer by Britain's Financial Services Authority lambasted banks for their failure to investigate their customers' real identity: many took the company registration at face value.
In other words, the fossil record is inconsistent, so we can't just tally the number of species and take the results at face value, as Sepkoski's Big Five chart did.
Sure, saying someone is " our whole world" sounds romantic; however, if taken at face value, this actually implies dependence on them for your identity and happiness.
Some newspapers have published claims he was implicated in a scheme to sell World Cup tickets at considerably more than face value. Richard Colven has the details.
Investment funds which Argentina calls vulture funds bought the debt for a fraction of their face value but are demanding a full payout of 1.3 billion dollars.