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It will draw on precedents, but will at the same time be tailored to Sierra Leone's particular situation, diplomats said today.

It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts.

-How did these arguments draw on legal precedents?

He has drawn on precedents as varied as Mogul opium dens and French portrait galleries for commissions ranging from chateaus to gyms.

(She was born in 1961). She draws on precedents as diverse as the text and image work of John Baldessari, screened paintings by Sigmar Polke and Robert Rauschenberg and Gerhard Richter's photographic abstractions.

Although England trailed behind other European powers in establishing overseas colonies, it had been engaged during the 16th century in the settlement of Ireland with Protestants from England and Scotland, drawing on precedents dating back to the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169.

The internalization of proteins into transport vesicles draws on precedents observed during autophagy and is plausible, but raises important questions about the role of a parasite-derived multi-protein complex in the PV membrane that is thought to translocate parasite proteins across this membrane.

Fortunately, the city has a history of creative corporate welfare, so there are precedents to draw on for a Soprano aid package.

Environmental services can also be marketed, although there are few precedents to draw on yet from in the Eastern and Central African regions.

There is no real modern precedent to draw on in Congress, although there is among state legislatures.

So there was recent precedent to draw on at the Rose Theater on Monday night, in the first of two sold-out concerts presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center.