Sentence examples for better precedent from inspiring English sources

In Britain, the February 1974 election is often cited, but the better precedent is 1923.

And what better precedent for the Blair-Brown feud than Lennon and McCartney's creative rivalry?

Consumer advocates in New York say that North Carolina's version is a far stricter and better precedent than the proposal pending here.

If she should replace Mr Wahid in a few months' time, her willingness to do it slowly and by the book whether out of caution, respect for the rule of law, or, as some say, a fear of bad karma would set a better precedent than a hastily arranged ousting of Mr Wahid.

The Fenians could not have wished for a better precedent.

I'm not saying: "Glasgow is great, Manchester is shit," like some kind of regional talkSPORT piss-taker, but some cities are currently setting a better precedent than others. .

In either case, or better yet both, the best precedent for such litigation is the legal battle for the name waged by former members of Bucks Fizz.

Results suggest a 10-item 3-factor solution may be an ideal fit for clinical samples; however, using the undergraduate sample, the same solution was significantly better than precedent solutions but nonetheless not ideal.

Or, they may simply be getting better at respecting precedent.

For instance, in a patent lawsuit, a lawyer might find that the judge assigned to their case is more likely to cite cases from the 3rd Circuit rather than the 9th Circuit where he is based, since he went to law school and clerked in Pennsylvania and remembers the 3rd Circuit's legal precedents better.

Tempting as it is to raise the specter of 1896 — Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" precedent — the better analogy is the 1955 decision known as Brown II, which ordered Southern schools desegregated "with all deliberate speed" but left that task to the segregationists who provoked the humanitarian crisis in the first place.