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Example sentences for: patently
How can you use “patently” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?
James Exon of Nebraska introduced a foolish bill which would have criminalized the transmission of "indecent" or "patently offensive" material via the Internet, the administration backed it.
The CDA, as most people reading this probably know, attempts to regulate content through criminal penalties for those who violate standards of decency (standards drawn so broadly that they might prohibit, for instance, David Sedaris' "Diary" from last week) with "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs."
Reno noted, the terms of the CDA criminalized a far broader range of speech--speech that is "indecent" or "patently offensive"--much of which is not "sexually explicit" as those words are normally understood.
Newspaper after newspaper has berated D'Amato for this patently dishonest strategy, noting that Schumer is probably the hardest-working member of Congress.
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