Example sentences for: patten

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

  • The interview ran on Wednesday's front page under the headline "Our people screwed up in Patten row, says Murdoch."

  • In the Guardian, Andrew Neil, Murdoch's former editor of the London Sunday Times , said his ex-boss had "shown neither integrity nor morality in his handling of Patten's book.

  • One of the board members of a new parent company, Independent Newspapers UK, is Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post (Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and Murdoch nemesis, is also a member).

  • (They claimed that Patten's manuscript wasn't up to the mark, when its editor at HarperCollins, Stuart Proffitt, was already on record as finding it the most lucid and intelligent book he had ever received from a politician.)

  • Just the other day, Chief Executive-designate Tung Chee-hwa--who will take over from Patten come July 1--sent a very loud official signal by declaring that "a noninterference policy would not meet the needs and strengthen the competitiveness" of today's Hong Kong.


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