The company is carefully mapping out its regulatory strategy, and plans to build on precedents established by a couple of small companies that came before, including one that's now part of Intrexon, a well-known synthetic biology company.
He wants to build on precedents of cooperation: in 1985, 33 towns in the capital area closed their incinerators and joined the effort to make a trash-to-energy plant possible (37 more have joined since), and in 1995 several communities near Hartford pooled resources to install computers in police cars — an effort in which he, as a mayor, had participated.
As the waging of war has grown increasingly secretive and privatized, presidents have built on precedent.
The 2011 letter on sexual assault built on precedent from letters of findings that came from Title IX investigations of schools under previous administrations, she added.
Even if we ended up with a narrow Supreme Court opinion striking down Prop 8 in a way that only applies to California, the case could be used as precedent to build on in the future.
They mean that there are precedents to build on, including a "peace declaration" made at a 2000 summit meeting between Kim Jong-il, then leader of North Korea, and Kim Dae-jung, then president of the South.
Art, like any endeavor, builds on precedents, but concentrating on the past betrays the essence of art-making.
Mr. Schwartz's plan, which builds on precedents going back to Westway in the 1970's and the Plan for Lower Manhattan before that, sets forth two integrated goals.
Moneo was an excellent choice to build on Miesian precedent.
I think Trump will build on that precedent.
One promising path is to build on the precedent of the Twenty-Third Amendment (presidential vote for D.C). to advocate for a new constitutional amendment that guarantees representation and the right to vote for every American, wherever they live.
