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The catapult rears its head and is cited as precedent for nonspecific killing.
Ramos said that Contador's lawyers were using the tennis player Richard Gasquet's case as precedent for Contador's being vindicated.
Russian officials now cite Kosovo as precedent for the independence or annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
McConnell, however, is likely to point to the so-called "Thurmond rule" as precedent for his attempt to block confirmation.
The Government enlists the Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U.S. 366 (1918), as precedent for upholding the constitutionality of the religious conscientious objector provision.
The group said it would be "highly regrettable" if foreign leaders could point to British parliament as precedent for introducing statutory media controls.
In an introductory note to her book, Hopper names Roxon, Willis, the English journalist Caroline Coon, and the anthology "Rock She Wrote," edited by Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers, as precedents for her own work.
Schoenberg, who described Bach's chorale settings as precedents for his own "emancipated dissonances," orchestrated the "St.
Most of Turkson's talk is devoted to citing earlier Papal encyclicals as precedents for "Laudato Si'".
Historians have cited the controversial elections of 1824, 1876 and 1888 as precedents for the current disputes.
Their elaborately staged images also stand as precedents for younger photo artists like Gregory Crewdson, Catherine Opie, Matthew Barney and Mariko Mori.
