Sentence examples for contrary to precedent from inspiring English sources

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Reed refused to recognize dilatory motions, and, contrary to precedent, he counted as present all members who were in the chamber.

Six years later we decided Bouie v. City of Columbia, in which the state court had held, contrary to precedent, that the state trespass law applied to black sit-in demonstrators who had consent to enter private property but were then asked to leave.

The Duke said that it was contrary to precedent for a Sovereign or former Sovereign to attend any coronation of another.

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The restriction was, Mr Korman wrote, "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent".

In a stridently worded ruling, Judge Korman wrote that Ms. Sebelius's decision to overrule the F.D.A. "was politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent".

On April 5th a federal judge scolded her, calling the restriction on emergency contraception "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent".

"The secretary's action was politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent," said the judge, Edward R. Korman of the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn.

In a scathing critique, Judge Edward Korman, of the Eastern District of New York, accused the administration of a "bad faith" decision that was "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent".

Ever since she went into business Chanel has, when forced, expressed opinions which were illuminating, sensible, subversive, contrary to all precedent, and — what was even more annoying — which palpably paid.

But Ms. Sebelius arbitrarily ruled that girls 16 and under would need prescriptions, an act that Judge Edward Korman, of the Eastern District of New York, rightly condemned as "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent".

That should have been the end of the matter, but Tiberius, convinced of the necessity of his bill, devised a novel method of bypassing the veto: a vote of the Assembly removed Octavius from office, contrary to all precedent.

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