But unlike shows that build on precedent and try to add something new, "The Deep End" is a pale imitation without smart writing, imaginative casting or even a clever conceit.
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.
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.
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.
The answer was clearly yes, according to Justice Scalia's majority opinion that built on decades of precedent on judicial deference to agencies.
His case is built on rather prodigious precedent, namely opinions rendered (or not) by the Cochrane Collaboration, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Moneo was an excellent choice to build on Miesian precedent.
Three years ago, Britain established strict guidelines to govern both the creation and the use of embryonic stem cells in the laboratory regulations which now serve as a model for other countries.The new publicly funded stem-cell bank builds on this precedent.
The FLW Standard builds on a precedent.
