Example sentences for: facie

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

  • Her decision on the independent-counsel issue may be good or bad--but it is legally defensible, and the evidence that Reno has been swayed by political factors doesn't amount to a prima facie case.

  • While neither the US nor the UK has yet to legislate a remedy for this prima facie paradoxical state of affairs, both appear ready to address the issue systematically, and—more significantly—with the input of a wide range of affected constituents: scientists, publishers, librarians, patient advocates, text-miners, entrepreneurs, and more.

  • The story seems oversold (by the SEC and by the NYT ): The paper reports that nearly half the violations resulted from complications relating to the merger that created the firm, and no examples are given of firm audits that were in any way rendered dubious by prima facie investment conflicts.

  • There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that

  • But it should be noted that, especially in the case of public figures like Terry Nichols, it takes far more than a dropped bit of type to constitute even a prima facie case of libel.


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