Sentence examples for happy precedent from inspiring English sources

That is hardly a happy precedent.

"So it was not a happy precedent.

Felix Frankfurter called Quirin "not a happy precedent".

Though the ruling was unanimous, Justice Felix Frankfurter declared that Quirin was "not a happy precedent".

(And that wasn't a happy precedent: Anne died childless 12 years later, while Richard was murdered in 1400).

Fidell sees the use of a military commission to try six German saboteurs in the same way the Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter came to: "not a happy precedent".

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A happier precedent, he says, is CS Forester's The Pursued, written in 1935 but never published, presumably because a crime novel was deemed too different from the author's naval stock-in-trade.

The precedent is not a happy one for a Conservative party committed to free trade and the single market.

Though legal research at first revealed no compelling precedent, eventually we made a happy discovery: after a series of disputed local elections in California, the state's county clerks had come to a bipartisan consensus on this issue.

That's a precedent the auto industry might be happy to discuss, as long as you didn't ask why Chrysler is once again pleading for government help.