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Example sentences for "prima facie"

  • The Anglicans and the Romanists agreed in the assumption that the possession of the gift of miracle-working was prima facie evidence of the soundness of the faith of the miracle-workers.

  • The judges, after hearing the affidavits on the other side, considered that a prima facie case had been made out, and allowed the prayer of the petition.

  • The Bench decided that there was no prima facie case against Collins, who was discharged on giving sureties to answer any charge that might be made against him at the Assizes.

  • The Court was of opinion that Mr. Cundall had made out a clear prima facie case, and the rule for the quo warranto was made absolute.

  • Parochial crusades, though prima facie a public blessing, had often the effect of spreading corruption.

  • If an uninscribed woman have the venereal disease, the fact is prima facie evidence of prostitution.

  • Were it not for a small number of cases which present prima facie evidence of a different character, the question of the reality of this phase of "mediumship" would be scarcely worth raising.

  • This was placed at the disposal of the Society in 1884, and was amply sufficient to show that a strong prima facie case for fuller investigation existed.

  • The object of every science presents prima facie two aspects: in the first place, that such an object is; in the second place, what it is.

  • Regarding art in reference to moral improvement, the same has prima facie to be said as about the didactic purpose.

  • Of the attributes of experience here in question, independence or "steadiness" is not regarded as prima facie evidence of spirit, but rather as an aspect of experience for which some cause is necessary.

  • Cosmology is the construing of the prima facie reality in terms of the essential reality.

  • Yahwistic principles and all that might prima facie be deduced from them, together with so much of custom and tradition as had been accepted as compatible with these principles.

  • This is uniform throughout, and uniformity of speech in the case of exotic languages, is prima facie evidence of the uniformity in both the tongue which is introduced and the original tongue of the country.

  • I doubt, indeed, whether they be even prima facie evidence.

  • We have, therefore, a prima facie right to lay great stress on sculpture as a Greek art, just as we have the prima facie right to select painting as an Italian art.

  • Certain peculiarities of the Tasmanian language give us the ground for thus demurring to the prima facie view of their descent.

  • The identity of name is prima facie evidence of two tribes so distant as those of Arkansas and the Saskatchewan being either offsets from one another, or else from some common stock; but it is not more.

  • It would be the same if we took only the prima facie view of the matter.

  • Patients to have a prima facie right to receive visits from and correspond with friends.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable antiquity; cross over; each petal; enthusiastic admirer; further still; generally applied; glorious victory; hundred florins; including those; large profit; person whose; prima donna; prima facie; primary assembly; primary education; primary importance; primary instruction; primary qualities; primary school; primary schools; primary source; sexual characters; shall propose; third elected; wedding ring; well aware