"firm precedent" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a decision or rule which has been set and accepted as a standard for future decisions in a similar situation. Example sentence: The court set a firm precedent establishing the rights of homeowners in the case.
There is a firm, recent precedent for the company to continue to invest in this way: Windows Phone.
Over the past decade, approval of etanercept [ 3, 4] and leflunomide [ 5] in 1998 and infliximab in 1999 [ 6] established a firm regulatory precedent in RA, resulting in the introduction of three more disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) therapies with another three expected within the year.
Both the National Association of Muslim Lawyers and CAIR said they were working in uncharted legal territory, as they had been unable to find firm legal precedents about how an unindicted co-conspirator could be removed from such a list.
Even with the decision to hold a synod on the family, he was careful not to move without firm Church precedents: John Paul II held a synod on the family in 1980, but in a different spirit.
Unlike the SEC, which is examining industry-wide behaviour, the NASD is (as usual) putting its energies into catching one firm, after which, precedent established, it can go after the others.Some at CSFB say that the bank is a victim of over-zealous regulators, spurred on by competition between the NASD and the SEC.
That year, the firm signed a precedent-setting deal to buy the publicly traded Houdaille Industries, which made industrial pipes, for $380 million.
But for now it's enough to say that there is firm and recent historical precedent for such a move by Microsoft.
Fear often creates opportunities for the bold, but occasionally fear has a firm footing in historical precedent and thoughtful analysis, and it can keep you from placing your portfolio into grave peril.
Our research differs from these prior studies in that we look only at existing firm level variables, a precedent suggested and supported by Brettel et al. (2012) who collected their data using surveys of European technology firms rather than adopting archival financial data as proxies.
Russia would see it as giving a firm response to the deplorable precedent of Western recognition of Kosovo's independence.
