Sentence examples for encouraging precedents from inspiring English sources

Encouraging precedents have been set elsewhere.

There are, as well, encouraging precedents in all parts of the world -- one thinks, for example, of the courageous exposes of the weekly Serbian magazine Vreme during the darkest days of the Milosevic regime.

Although both victories occurred when the two parties were less polarized, many White House officials regard the successes as encouraging precedents.

Fortunately, however, there are encouraging precedents that one could follow.

If China goes ahead with the wireless standard, Mr. Dawson said, it could establish a precedent encouraging Beijing to set more exclusive technical standards.

It also worried that it would set a bad precedent, encouraging Microsoft to make even more onerous demands in the future.

Hollande's statement that Britain could not be allowed to create a precedent encouraging others to plead for special changes reflected a Franco-Belgian gambit defining the referendum as the UK's last chance to settle its European destiny.

And yet, groups as diverse as Google, the Internet Society, the International Trade Union Confederation and Greenpeace warn that the discussions could set a bad precedent, encouraging governments to step up censorship or take other actions that would threaten the integrity of the Internet.

WASHINGTON, March 2 - In concluding its nuclear deal with India, the Bush administration faces significant opposition in Congress and tough questions from its allies on whether the arrangement could set a precedent encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons to Iran and other potential foes of the United States.

Such a step might set a dangerous precedent by encouraging other governments to justify entering embassies to arrest dissidents seeking diplomatic asylum.

"To let them off the hook now sets a dangerous precedent by encouraging them to continue to engage in illegal collaborations with the government in the future," said Kevin Bankston, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which last year filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T, charging that the company allowed the government to unlawfully monitor U.S. residents.