Sentence examples for entirely without precedent from inspiring English sources

You might assume that this fusion of rock and comedy is entirely without precedent.

Michael Howard, a former Conservative leader, described the raid and Mr. Green's arrest as deplorable, and entirely without precedent in modern parliamentary annals.

Nancy E. Little, Mr. Jones's lawyer, said that neither the police nor the prosecutors claimed that he was doing anything other than standing on the sidewalk with friends — an activity, she said, that is not entirely without precedent in Manhattan.

The selectors refused to drop him – an extraordinary (and frankly, irrational) show of faith that is, as far as I can ascertain, entirely without precedent in the annals of Australian cricket.

While a raunchy comedy might not be the most dignified place for a politician of Mr. Clinton's stature to turn up, it would not be entirely without precedent: Senator John McCain of Arizona had a cameo in the R-rated comedy "Wedding Crashers" in 2005, three years before he was the Republican Party's nominee for the presidency.

It's not entirely without precedent – the Koyaanisqatsi films by Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke had something of a similar aesthetic ambition, though with very different ends in mind, and the Eames' famous short, Powers of Ten, contains a little of the same dizzying sense of scale, though in exquisite miniature.

"It's completely without precedent.

The gains in science knowledge are not totally without precedent.

Legal blogs around the world found the decision beyond baffling, entirely without reason or precedent, and intensely scary.

I'm not sure one is entirely better than another, but it's strange, although not without precedent, to see Google TV implemented differently.

A dissenting judge, James L. Oakes, said the decision created "an entirely new rule of law that so far as I know stands without precedent in the history of Anglo-American jurisprudence".