Sentence examples for former precedent from inspiring English sources

("Not a bed could be had at any of the villages at an early hour on the preceding evening; and Uxbridge was crowded beyond all former precedent," Egan wrote of the night before Neat beat Oliver).

"But he found on reflection that there was a strong feeling amongst his supporters that he should meet parliament and that former precedent did not apply in this instance".

The Environmental Defenders Office NSW, which is acting for the conservation group, has cited as a precedent former Labor environment minister Tony Burke's ill-fated approval of the Shree minerals mine in Tasmania.

"The DGA has set a precedent". Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Arthur Hiller, meanwhile, said Smithee's death, if it comes, will be an honorable one.

Prior to the late 1980's, the former term had precedent within Christianity, but the latter, "Spiritual Mapping", was coined quite recently, in the late 1980's, by George Otis, Jr. and refers to a set of practices pioneered by C. Peter Wagner, George Otis, Jr., Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso, Harold Caballeros, and other Christian evangelists during the 1980's and 1990's.

The prospect of a former president in the dock is without modern precedent.

There was precedent from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's era to deploy the Army.

Substances without precedent in former times are now widely in use.

There is precedent for former presidents joining forces for post-disaster fundraising.

There is some precedent for former presidential candidates to become television personalities.

When Sanders recalled Hillary as "a great First Lady who broke precedent," the former President smiled and applauded.