Sentence examples for be a precedent from inspiring English sources

It would be a precedent.

That too could be a precedent.

Doing so would not be a precedent.

It is believed to be a precedent.

The Collingwood case may or may not be a precedent".

Any plan there could be a precedent for airports around the country.

"This appears to be a precedent-setting case," Mr. Walters said.

If they got to the Supreme Court before the ground was prepared, might there be a precedent-setting loss?

President Bush is to open the meeting with what we hope will be a precedent-setting speech.

"I always felt ImClone would be a precedent-setting case," said Robert Toth Jr., senior portfolio manager at EGM Capital in San Francisco.

A regional National Labor Relations Board has ruled, in what many expect to be a precedent-setting decision, that student-athletes at Northwestern University can begin to unionize.