Sentence examples for extraordinary precedent from inspiring English sources

Yet it would set an extraordinary precedent to start retrospectively banning players on that basis.

She added: "But it [oil exploitation in Virunga] would set an extraordinary precedent.

"It would be quite an extraordinary precedent," Damian Sturzaker, a partner with Sydney-based law firm Marque who is acting for Everiss, told the Guardian.

In an internet defamation case that lawyers say could set an "extraordinary precedent", an American games company is suing a British blogger in the Australian courts.

The bailout package, which would have set an extraordinary precedent by taxing ordinary bank depositors to pay part of the bill, led to street protests in this tiny Mediterranean country and set off a wave of anxiety across Europe.

In an extraordinary precedent that went well beyond FDR's criticism of the Court in the 1930s, President Obama sharply rebuked the Court for its Citizens United ruling while Democratic congressmen stood and cheered.

But the question for Wall Street is why none of these extraordinary, precedent-shattering efforts have stanched the selling that has infected the market for five straight days.

As Ms. Ryan put it to me, Mr. Trump's candidacy is "extraordinary and precedent-shattering" and "to pretend otherwise is to be disingenuous with readers".

"The energetic judicial response to prior legislative inertia was the most extraordinary and precedent-setting feature of Boston Harbor's journey from a national disgrace to a symbol of national pride".

It was an extraordinary breach of precedent.

It has thereby exposed Casey's extraordinary deference to precedent for the result-oriented expedient that it is.