Sentence examples for a remarkable precedent from inspiring English sources

Permanently setting aside 150 million acres would still leave plenty of room for economic development in northern Quebec, and it would set a remarkable precedent for sustainable use.

Paul Udoto, a spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service, told AFP news agency that the ruling was a "remarkable precedent" and rangers in Kenya would be motivated by seeing that poachers could no longer get away with a mere "slap on the wrist".

Although Mr. Peña-Irala was sent back to Paraguay and none of the $10 million judgment has yet been paid, our case established a remarkable precedent: from Ethiopia's Red Terror to Argentina's Dirty War to the Philippines' dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos, in 19 instances survivors or victims' relatives have used this law to obtain a measure of justice.

Open source developer Bruno Lowagie is about to set a remarkable precedent in the F/OSS world by restricting any government body in his (and my) home country, Belgium, to use any product that makes use of technology originally developed by him.

The rebuff is a remarkable breach of precedent at the traditionally conservative university.

In a remarkable departure from precedent, for two hours she sat in the Ladies' Gallery overlooking the chamber while the Parliament Bill, a bill to remove the right of the House of Lords to veto legislation, was debated.

It is a remarkable departure from historical precedent.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched in 1988 has been a remarkable endeavour prompted by the precedent of smallpox eradication.

According to the Times, "Kavanaugh introduced each of them, rattling off their names and, in a remarkable display of memory not devoted to legal precedent, their grades".

The precedent-setting case was made possible by a remarkable decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which allowed it to be brought under a long-obscure law enacted by Congress in 1789.

The agreement creates a remarkable conflict of interest for the Department itself, and it sets terrible precedents for future failing colleges.