Sentence examples for because of a precedent from inspiring English sources

Holloway believes he is being punished because of a precedent set when other clubs were similarly dealt with in previous campaigns, but that it should no longer be applied now clubs have to name a 25-man squad at the start of the season.

Other times it is because of a precedent that has been set in other jurisdictions, or because of a high profile case, or because the committee just does not want to take the issue up at this time.

She was also, because of a precedent-defying seventeenth-century Virginia statute, Thomas Jefferson's property.

The judge said he believed that he could not stop the funds from voting their shares, largely because of a Second Circuit precedent.

What's more, it's done without a warrant because of a legal precedent that goes back to the era of analogue telephony – specifically a US supreme court judgment in 1979, which decided that metadata were the property of the telephone company, not of the individual to whose calls the metadata applied.

"It was difficult because there wasn't much of a precedent," says Artigues.

Then Babcock & Wilcox struck a similar deal, with a contribution to a trust fund provided by its parent, McDermott International.All this failed to lift the stockmarket gloom over other asbestos-exposed firms, perhaps because they were small deals and because doubts remained about how much of a precedent they set for companies that had not (yet) gone bust.

The ruling does not carry the weight of a precedent in court because arbitration panels generally are not bound to consider previous decisions.

To count as a convention, a reproduced pattern must be reproduced, in large part, simply because it is a precedent, not because of its intrinsic merits.

The case has sweeping implications, says plaintiff attorney Alan Schneider of Portland, because it sets a precedent giving researchers access to future discoveries of ancient remains.

Is that just because they fear the consequences of setting a precedent and discouraging "full and frank" conversations at summit level, or are there more personal, or power-related, elements in play?