Sentence examples for become precedent from inspiring English sources
The nation's founders, the decision said, intended federal judges' decisions to become precedent, with each case setting the foundation for later law.
Bush v. Gore had none of those merits, nor did the majority have the faith in their own decision to allow it to become precedent.
Those judges hear tens of thousands of appeals each year — by comparison, the Supreme Court hears arguments in about 80 — and their judgments become precedent in the states within those circuits.
When governments begin using new tools, these tools become precedent, and these precedents become commonplace.
Focus Media's run at re-listing in Shenzhen after delisting from NASDAQ, which was set to become precedent for similar deals before its intended backdoor listing vehicle came under CSRC scrutiny, will be closely watched.
By the beginning of July, a number of the Internet bills had been languishing in Congress for months, their sponsors unable to muster the necessary support for floor debates on what could become precedent-setting laws covering free speech and content in the digital age.
"If crude doesn't stabilize soon, those latter two occurrences become precedents," they said.
When I'm using that term, it's very clear that I'm talking about having a holding, it becomes precedent, and it binds other courts.
A soldier who had been too young to remember the attacks is sent to a war, forewarned, if not prepared, by the images he's seen, and comes back with his own stories to tell; a Supreme Court decision becomes precedent, in unexpected contexts; a teen-ager reads a novel and is drawn in the direction of one of the selves he could become.
Recognition of same-sex marriages from other states became precedent when the Court of Appeals agreed to hear a case from Prince George's County, where two women who were legally married in California had been denied a divorce by the circuit court.
Winroth and Widener note that the pope's legal decisions became precedents, inspiring secular law and becoming the recognized authority in the law of marriage, the law of just war, and the legal implications of oaths.
