We hope very much not to be creating the precedent.
With the Tories using the power of the state to unilaterally drive detrimental changes to Labour's funding, they are creating the precedent for the next Labour government to do the same".
Their bill also would delay Obamacare's principal cost-containment mechanism, the equally unpopular "Cadillac tax". This would represent the second time that tax will have been delayed, creating the precedent lawmakers will need to push it off in perpetuity.
Often, the steps that were taken to improve the target firms' returns on capital involved reducing headcount, breaking unions (Reagan created the precedent for this when he crushed the air traffic controller's union, PATCO), and moving operations to lower-cost locales (e.g., the southern U.S., Mexico, China).
"[The Bush doctrine of preemption] means also that if the Congress approves the Iraq resolution just proposed by the administration it is simultaneously creating the precedent for preemptive action anywhere, anytime this or any future president so decides".
"Most places I worked, I was the first mother in a full-time job, I was the bulldozer, I created the precedents," Ms. Domscheit-Berg said.
In a statement, Botswana's observer delegation said that the election fell short of acceptable standards and that the regional trade group "should not create the undesirable precedent of permitting exceptions to its own rules".
"create the conditions precedent for war.
Quite apart from creating the dangerous precedent that savers and lenders to banks will incur serious losses as and when those banks get into difficulties - which undermines efforts to rebuild confidence in the Spanish and Italian banking systems (see here) - it also shows that one of the presumed "sine qua nons" of the rehabilitation of the eurozone, a so-called banking union, is a distant dream.
The Obama administration and its allies were willing to create that precedent because the material would be returned to Iran in the form of fuel rods, usable in a civilian nuclear plant but very difficult to convert to weapons use.
