facially

[ UK /fˈe‍ɪʃə‍lˌi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. with respect to the face
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How To Use facially In A Sentence

  • He began by trying to identify the pith and substance of the Safe Streets Act in order to determine if, at least facially, it dealt with matters within provincial legislative competence.
  • Because the detriment to the child standard is necessary to protect the due process rights of nonconsenting biological parents, a conclusion that the General Assembly intended to abandon that standard would lead us to deduce that Code §§ 63.2 – 1203 and – 1205 facially violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child 
  • The problem with that is that the AMA would fight you tooth and nail on that and their argument that any provisions to increase the number of doctors will sacrifice the quality of medical care is facially a pretty strong one. The Volokh Conspiracy » President Obama Claimed that the Individual Mandate is Not a Tax
  • She may resemble her father facially, but in other respects she's not at all like him.
  • For these reasons, the Stolen Valor Act, if read to apply only to knowingly false representations, is likely facially constitutional. NEWS February2010
  • When I was 14, I discovered a club at school called Operation Smile, an organization that sponsors free surgery for facially deformed kids in developing countries.
  • Janice belonged with him, everyone decided, at least facially; “Your kids would have the best faces,” Brittany said. The Adults
  • It's bifacially worked," Laduni said, turning it over. The Plains of Passage
  • As a practical matter, a claim of selective prosecution is well nigh impossible to prove, absent an express admission of racial or ethnic animus or a situation so flagrant as that present in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) (facially neutral municipal ordinance enforced Chinese laundry operators, but not otherwise enforced). The Volokh Conspiracy » What Will Kagan Say about AZ Immigration Law
  • As the Titles of Nobility Clause recognizes, the social message of facially discriminatory laws that separate some out as superiors and other as inferiors is a wrong that it is proper for the Constitution to forbid.
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