Sentence examples for familiar precedent from inspiring English sources

There is a familiar precedent for this kind of global regulatory framework.

Setting a disturbingly familiar precedent, Roosevelt also relied on extralegal means to track domestic "subversives" — who were sometimes just political opponents.

Many of the artists studied or worked in France and were familiar with precedents set by Monet, Renoir, Degas and their colleagues.

A lawyer will be more familiar with legal precedents, but citing these broader laws for cases similar to yours will also work in your favor.

Lex Parliamentaria (1689; "Parliamentary Law") was a pocket manual for members of Parliament and included many precedents that are now familiar.

Mr. Biden served for 36 years as a senator from Delaware, making him intimately familiar with the chamber, its rules and precedents, and the main combatants on the floor.

Even without these details the piece is familiar because it has so many art-historical precedents, near and distant.

Officials familiar with the Assembly said they knew of no precedent for such a secret payment, and government watchdog groups called for an investigation.

Feldman said that the lawyers the Commission usually taps for help at the attorney general's office, mainly Assistant Attorney General Lisa Brenner-Freemare are familiar with the Commission's work and with the precedent being established by its record of decisions.

And then, if precedent holds, politics will fall back — reflexively — to its familiar patterns.

Allowing the ombudsman to make recommendations would be going a step too far in setting a precedent for second-guessing the Council's decisions, according to diplomats and others familiar with the negotiations.