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The ruling at the Masters, according to the statement, should not be interpreted as a "general precedent for relaxing or ignoring a competitor's essential obligation" to sign a correct scorecard.

"The Woods ruling was based on exceptional facts - as required by rule 33-7 - and should not be viewed as a general precedent for relaxing or ignoring a competitor's essential obligation under the rules to return a correct score card," added the statement.

Despite a general precedent in cost analyses for doing so, capital costs were not annualised.

"In doing so, [Glasgow] would create a precedent for further general subversions of benefactors' wishes and terms, and a specific, potentially lethal one with regard to benefactors' attempts to protect their art from being subject to unnecessary risks".

This result is in accordance with a precedent work [ 8], re-emphasizing the thesis that APA is not a general marker for autoimmune disease process.

Talking about the attorney general, Mr. Giuliani argued, would set a bad precedent for future presidents.

Christine Pritchard, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said the decision established a favorable precedent for the state in several other Indian land-claims cases.

Already, he said, foes of trade liberalization and other free-market policies in Europe are citing Washington's agreement to dramatically intervene in the American economy as a precedent for advancing their more general argument — that American-style economics is at a dead end.

Defeat would set a negative precedent for a series of other state elections in the coming year, ahead of a general election due by 2004.

There is a precedent for a rump state.

There is a precedent for such a renegotiation.