Sentence examples similar to patently applicable from inspiring English sources
The applicable statutes are not patently defective in any vital respect and we should not assume, in advance of a decision by the state court, that they should be construed so as to deprive appellant of the due process to which he is entitled under the Federal Constitution.
"The application was patently absurd.
This test proposed a three-pronged criterion for obscenity: x is obscene if (1) it is found appealing to the prurient interest by an average person applying contemporary community standards, (2) it depicts sexual conduct, specifically defined by the applicable state law, in a patently offensive way and (3) taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
What we are really talking about, then, is either a standard for risks of self-incrimination which protects all personal judgments which are not patently frivolous, or a grant of immunity potentially applicable to all instances of compelled 'self-reporting'.
It must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law.
Patently, that's progress.
"That's patently obvious.
This is patently not true.
