Sentence examples for become a precedent from inspiring English sources

"We fear that this decision could become a precedent.

But they fear it will become a precedent for limits on existing plants.

This is an awful thing that we can't allow to become a precedent".

This verdict may become a precedent in efforts to prosecute other retired officers now living in Florida.

Why then should he "unleash" Kim and expose North Korea to a U.S. counterattack that might become a precedent for pushing Communism back elsewhere?

Mr. Emanuel referred on Twitter to a report by ThinkProgress that highlighted his hopes to have the action become a precedent for other cities.

A man serving 33 years in a British jail for a drug offence committed in Thailand is to challenge his sentence in what could become a precedent-setting case for Britons jailed abroad.

That claim was disputed, but it became a precedent.

The measure not only laid the groundwork for education in the states of the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes, it also became a precedent for national educational aid.

"If Hungary becomes a precedent in this instance, it can become a problem in a lot of other member states and can be a problem for Europe's wider economic growth," Heath said.

But in 1789, after he became the first president to be sworn into office, George Washington decided he'd better deliver one anyway – and like most things decided by Washington it became a precedent set in stone.