Sentence examples for accepted precedent from inspiring English sources

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I made the mistake of trying to explain that there was an accepted precedent for what we were doing, but my namedropping of Laibach only got this response: "I DON'T CARE ABOUT LAY-BACK!" I don't blame them though.

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While companies who are part of multi-stakeholder initiatives might have accepted this precedent, Jyrki Raina, general secretary of IndustriALL, says: "The fact that the [Rana Plaza] compensation fund is still $8.5m£5.7m7m) short shows that very little has changed".

Parliamentary procedure, also called rules of order, the generally accepted rules, precedents, and practices commonly employed in the governance of deliberative assemblies.

Some of Mr. Cameron's ideas are relatively noncontentious; for example, he would like the court's decisions to be accepted as precedents to prevent its having to hear similar types of cases.

If we accept that precedent, we can negotiate our own sentences when we do wrong, and rip up our parking tickets if we object to them".

"And worse, we can't accept a precedent where said ex-employees would retain access while building a related product".

Tories in the House of Lords agreed to the disfranchisement of the borough, but refused to accept the precedent of directly transferring its seats to an industrial city.

Such maneuvers have precedent.

Trump's latest remarks, made Sunday on Fox News, came just a week after he broke with long-standing precedent and accepted a call from Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen.

This is your opportunity to ask the biggest questions, challenge accepted norms, create new precedents and reshape the world, using technology and the internet as your tools.

"I am not morally opposed to capital punishment," Ms. Kagan wrote to a senator, adding that she "accepted" the Supreme Court's precedents upholding "the death penalty as constitutional in a wide variety of cases and circumstances".

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