Sentence examples similar to a precedent-setting execution from inspiring English sources

Southern Baptists have banished two congregations for accepting homosexuals and set in motion a precedent-setting change in bylaws to exclude other churches that ever do the same.

A year later Deutsch produced a precedent-setting commercial for Ikea, in which two gay men shop together for home furnishings.

"It's a precedent-setting moment, and we need to be careful about the precedent we set," Dr. Alberts said.

"It was a precedent-setting settlement," Mr. Spitzer said.

It is a precedent-setting, tone-setting action which reveals Britain's disastrously dysfunctional relationship with predators.

"I wouldn't say this was a precedent-setting deal," Sather said.

But circumstances now present him with a precedent-setting moment of decision.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Mr. Hahle's ultimate boss, is fighting an uphill battle for a precedent-setting fifth term.

In a precedent-setting case, more than 100 doctors employed by the clinic's H.M.O.

"This appears to be a precedent-setting case," Mr. Walters said.

It's a precedent-setting case," said Jeffrey N. Gibbs, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in food and drug law.