Sentence examples for Political precedents from inspiring English sources

Political precedents are similarly unhelpful guides to how these parties will fare.

And he had almost no political precedents.

The interior minister Anna Maria Cancellieri also has a few political precedents: she was prefect in Genoa and commissioner in Bologna during a mayoral crisis from February 2010 to May 2011.

There are many legal and political precedents where a population living outside a territory has participated in that territory's election (e.g., Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor).

The idea has a political precedent, too.

It also sets a political precedent, though not a legal one, for many other religious groups outside the Russian mainstream.

The parliamentary regulation is enshrined in 400 years of constitutional history and may be difficult to overturn without setting a political precedent.

At Trump Tower on Tuesday night, amid his litany of thank-yous, Mr. Trump demonstrated the degree to which his nomination represented an astonishing break from political precedent.

Political precedent is also working against him: his five predecessors have all been forced out of office after about a year.

"This is the single greatest challenge to regional stability in southern Africa, not only because of its terrible humanitarian and security consequences, but because of the dangerous political precedent it sets".

Raad Alkadiri, an expert on Iraqi oil and a director at PFC Energy, a Washington consulting group, said of the move by the Kurds, "This sets a huge political precedent".