Sentence examples for and precedents from inspiring English sources

Bureaucratic decisions and above all procedures are grounded in codified rules and precedents.

Parts 1 and 2 recited the facts and precedents that the majority deemed relevant.

Law firms are using computers to search through masses of legal briefs and precedents.

Predictably from art-school graduates, the art is loaded with homages and precedents.

To do that, the court must reason its way to answers — and precedents embody that reasoning.

Some nations that still have such sentences have strict legal rules and precedents for their use.

Inspiration wafts through the culture, bubbles of energy and precedents for other struggles and tactics.

The length of the suspension Rodriguez deserves will be determined by lawyers and documents and precedents and fine print.

As a lower-court judge for 17 years, she said, she has faithfully upheld the law and precedents.

And so, when the Occupy movement heated up last year, many art types reached instinctively for European theory and precedents.

Many of the Senate's antique rules and precedents have been warped beyond recognition by the modern pressures of partisanship.