Sentence examples for it's prima from inspiring English sources

If it's not, then it's prima facie illegal.

Whatever else Mr Derbyshire's column was, it was prima facie a document that both displayed and advocated racial prejudice.

"If you played the piano, it was prima facie evidence that you were contaminated by Western bourgeois culture.

So English, or something like it, is prima facie plausible as a model of the system of symbols that we think in.

We were married in Manhattan and the marriage certificate plainly states that it is "prima facie evidence of the facts" and that the signature and seal are printed pursuant to New York State law.

We apprehend that it is prima facie right to keep promises by apprehending that it is prima facie right to fulfill this or that particular promise.

It is prima facie unclear whether single-case propensity theories obey the probability calculus or not.

As such it is prima facie evident that the current web is "secure enough" for mass adoption.

Broadly speaking, it is because moral facts are assumed to have qualities that it is prima facie challenging to integrate into the naturalistic causal world order.

The underlying idea is that if a being is able to fare better or worse, it is prima facie morally better if it fares better rather than worse.

Perhaps the most famous anti-abortion argument in the philosophical literature comes from Don Marquis, who argues that, because it is prima facie wrong to kill any entity with a future like ours, and because a fetus has a future like ours, it is prima facie wrong to kill a fetus (Marquis 1989).