Sentence examples for by precedents from inspiring English sources

To ensure consistency, courts abide by precedents set by higher courts examining the same issue.

And by the way, none started from zero: their efforts are haunted by precedents.

Its independence, argues those worried by precedents, will be seized on by separatists from Catalonia to Chechnya (to say nothing, nearer home, of the Bosnian Serb republic).

Advance directives can be used in every state and are backed either by legislation or by precedents set in court cases.

"The application in this manner of broad secrecy prohibitions to outsiders is not satisfactorily justified, including by precedents in Australia or elsewhere".

The results are exuberantly decorative and fierce, but are also haunted by precedents like George Condo's suave modernist riffs or Philip Taaffe's lush sense of pattern.

In order to further strengthen our pattern of results, we conducted a two-step analysis (see Methods) with the frequency characteristics and within the time interval described earlier in order to analyze the speaker-by-precedent interaction in source space.

Brown will not be bound by precedent.

By precedent Pluto is a planet.

It is usually best to be guided by precedent.

The committee itself says it isn't bound by precedent.