Sentence examples for cited as precedent from inspiring English sources

The ruling is likely to be cited as precedent by other prisoners applying for early release.

The catapult rears its head and is cited as precedent for nonspecific killing.

Arbitrators' decisions were not to be published, or cited as precedent in future disputes, the rules said.

The use of a summary order, which ordinarily cannot be cited as precedent, was part of that compromise.

In the interview with The Times, he cited as precedent the 1996 Saudi-sponsored coup attempt against his father.

The majority opinion announced that the ruling was "limited to the present circumstances" and could not be cited as precedent.

Philip Guston, Carroll Dunham and Jonathan Lasker are all rightly cited as precedents in the news release.

Color-chart paintings by Gerhard Richter — one phase in the great German's philosophical and spectacular excavation of the medium — are often plausibly cited as precedents for Hirst's spots.

Conan Doyle wanted to write stories in which all the ingredients for solving the crime were there from the beginning, and in which the drama would be, as in the Poe stories that he cited as precedents, in the mental workings of his ideal ratiocinator.

Over a century after his time, his administrative decisions were still being cited as precedents.

Opponents of abortion cite as precedent a 30-year-old ban on the use of taxpayer money to pay for elective abortions.