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"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.

If this ruling becomes a precedent, a single recalcitrant owner of bonds issued under American law will be able to stop all other lenders from getting paid until his demands are met.

That claim was disputed, but it became a precedent.

"We fear that this decision could become a precedent.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

Opponents believe the project is out of scale with its surroundings and will become a precedent for high-rise buildings in low-rise historic districts.