Sentence examples for action unprecedented from inspiring English sources

The commission called its action unprecedented and said it stemmed from Enron's "numerous market manipulation schemes".

And in a drastic action, unprecedented in the five-year-saga of euro zone bank bailouts, the Dutch finance minister decreed: Bondholders like Mr. Zannakis would be wiped out.

If the Legislature chooses its own slate of electors, an action unprecedented in this state, and if the courts ultimately rule that Mr. Gore won the state, Congress would be faced with having to choose between two slates of electors.

While establishing the supremacy of the federal government in the industrial field, Roosevelt in 1902 also took action unprecedented in the history of the presidency by intervening on labour's behalf to force the arbitration of a strike by the United Mine Workers of America against the Pennsylvania anthracite coal operators.

Mr Clinton has just provided a deposition on oath and on videotape in the Jones case, an action unprecedented for a sitting president in a civil case; if he turns out to have lied, Mr Starr may have him.That deposition itself was the result of a ruling that may have the widest implications, for Mr Starr and for those who follow him.

The Federal Reserve not only taken has action unprecedented since the Great Depression – by lending money directly to major investment banks – but also has put taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in questionable trades these same bankers made when the good times were rolling.

But her action had unprecedented consequences.

"The action was unprecedented and unconscionable," he said.

J. Michael Luttig, Boeing's general counsel, has described the action as "unprecedented".

Ordering a military action of unprecedented secrecy, he launched a bombing campaign against enemy forces in Cambodia.

Dr Porter said such action was "unprecedented" by doctors in the UK, though similar stoppages had occurred in other countries with "despotic" management practices.