Sentence examples for big precedent from inspiring English sources
This is a big precedent – and, of course, there are other countries that will continue to have disputes with oil companies over control of resources.
Just tread carefully, though, because you're up against some pretty big precedent.
No matter how the judges rule, this process could conceivably go all the way to the US Supreme Court, where gerrymandering has been at the center of lots of big, precedent-setting decisions lately.
"Detroit is a huge and prominent American city, so anything that happens with Detroit will set a much bigger precedent," said Matt Fabian, a managing director at Municipal Market Advisors.
It would be a bad precedent, if Germany were to cut a special deal merely because it is the biggest boy in the euro class.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: They haven't cited it, as I pointed out in the comment, which suggests that it's not a big-deal precedent.
But it marks a big break in precedent and will be seen as unsatisfactory by many members of the governing council.
And it also established a dangerous precedent: big financial institutions, we now know, will be bailed out in times of crisis.
