You must reach far back to find a precedent.
Colleagues have been struggling to find a precedent.
"You can wrack your brain and not find a precedent in recent history that foreshadows this".
That is a high bar to meet, Walton said, so high that he could not find a precedent for it.
"It would be very, very hard to find a precedent for an attack like that in recent diplomatic history".
Actually, you don't have to go back very far to find a precedent for when Republicans did exactly that.
I found a precedent for such a study in the BMJ, in a paper looking at neurological diseases.
One might find a precedent for them in Rabelais, perhaps, or in that noted Vorticist firebrand, Charles Dickens.
Theodore Champney, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Binghamton, said the recent spate of extreme weather left him struggling to find a precedent.
As the Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne wrote recently, in a devastating review of Behe's work in The New Republic, it would be hard to find a precedent.
Ever since Williams announced his retirement, many of us have scrambled to find a precedent to make sense of such a drastic departure from the norm.
