Sentence examples for his precedent from inspiring English sources

I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his errors".

Auchincloss, who has written about early modern France, observes, "His precedent is more to be found in Europe than in America, more in the example of some young priest like the 17th-century Richelieu dreaming in the cloister of how he might take over the power of the state from the clumsy military minds that had ruled it so long".

He represents the ideal philosopher-king who reconciles wisdom with power, and this scarcely makes his precedent an easy one to follow.

His precedent and persistence in the face of polio shows us just how far we have come in curbing this disease and, despite its recent reemergence, the heights we may yet reach.

Since Washington's first presidential executive orders -- he issued eight -- presidents have followed his precedent more than 13,500 times: Theodore Roosevelt more than 1,000 times, Woodrow Wilson more than 1,800, Franklin D. Roosevelt, more than 3,500 (the most of any president), and Obama, approaching 200 times.

Yet, recently emerged artists such as Sam Durant, Renee Green, Tacita Dean and Matthew Coolidge (with the collective known as the Center for Land Use Interpretation), all of whom were too young to have witnessed Smithson's brief but blazing evolution first-hand, have also built on his precedent.

Even more remarkably, people's impressions of Trump's personal qualities have been virtually unaffected by his precedent-smashing campaign and presidency.

The movie also makes clear that Robinson got his precedent-setting assignment not just because of his talent but because of his character.

Straw met Shields's family at Blackburn town hall last month and was apparently so convinced by what they told him that he made his precedent-setting decision today.

Federal prosecutors were so concerned that any ruling he issued would carry a significance even greater than its legal weight that they asked the Judge to reconsider his precedent-shattering decision.

He had been burned once, and in many ways his precedent-setting deal is less about establishing a gigantic salary benchmark, Mr. Kamins said, than it is an elaborate "kill fee" to protect Mr. Jackson from getting burned again, at a time when Universal was in the process of being sold.