Sentence examples for bad precedence from inspiring English sources

The opposing team argued that this would set a bad precedence that children may engage in unprotected sex, fall pregnant and still return to school.

And then there is the fact that Wiener's showing in the polls sets bad precedence--as evidenced by the decision by another unsavory character, Eliot Spitzer, to run for office again.

This video, which features a surprisingly thorough look at Lego vs. Lepin, was a family favorite for a while, taking precedence over the Star Wars trailers and Bad Lip Reading my kids usually watched.

It's natural to think that computability, range of application, and other things being equal, true theories are better than false ones, good approximations are better than bad ones, and highly probable theoretical claims deserve to take precedence over less probable ones.

While Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Democratic State Assemblyman and the chairman of the Committee on Environmental Conservation, said that he thought it was good news that ARCO was "in the room," he added that it was bad news that ARCO's need to make a profit "must take precedence" over what he called public relations.

England duties normally take precedence but in this case it is easy to contend that a bad showing by county cricket's two qualifers will do untold damage to the reputation of England's domestic Twenty20 game.

But politics take precedence.

Whose needs take precedence?

Does that take precedence?

They take precedence over democracy".

More likely sevens takes precedence.