Example sentences for: patten

How can you use “patten” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thursday, the Telegraph returned to the fray, reporting on its front page that HarperCollins Chairman Eddie Bell was "very low" and contemplating resignation after Murdoch's attack; and on an inside page that "outrage is bubbling to the surface in America" over Murdoch's dumping of the Patten memoirs.

  • Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as saying Murdoch was China's "willing accomplice" in suppressing the truth about human rights: "His action to kill Christopher Patten's book is not isolated and is part of a pattern."

  • However, it would be justified internationally as being akin to the electoral system that existed in Hong Kong prior to the democratic reforms introduced by the territory's last British governor, Chris Patten, in the face of Chinese objections.

  • John Patten, the Education Secretary, is, according to The Times [4 February 1993], said to be anxious for standard English to be introduced without endangering regional variations.

  • In a scoop last Friday, the Daily Telegraph revealed the circumstances under which a Murdoch publishing company, the London subsidiary of HarperCollins, had canceled publication of the memoirs of Britain's last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, for which it had already paid an advance of $200,000.


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