Sentence examples for its precedents from inspiring English sources

Given its precedents, it was unlikely that the Supreme Court was going to ban prayer at government meetings altogether.

In the DOMA context, what the court would need to look at, if it wanted to remain true to its precedents, would be the political power of gays and lesbians in 1996, when the law was enacted.

And the Supreme Court, vested with the nearly absolute discretion in what cases it hears, has been unwilling to protect its precedents.

In his opinion today, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist referred to the appeals court's assessment of the individual factors as a "divide-and-conquer analysis" and said it was inconsistent with the Supreme Court's insistence in its precedents that reasonable suspicion be based on a "totality of the circumstances".

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2005 stated that the Supreme Court subsequently had adopted a more expansive approach to identifying "property" within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, but that it is the Supreme Court's prerogative alone to overrule one of its precedents.

The case, June Medical Services vs. Gee, has been closely watched as an early test of whether the high court would stand behind its precedents in the area of abortion or begin to make it easier for states to restrict the procedure.

It has its precedent … It's not only possible, it was possible".

It's just too bad that while "The Invention of Solitude" is one of Auster's best books, "Winter Journal" doesn't live up to its precedent — it lacks its kick.

The critics generally panned the movie, saying that for all its precedent-setting, it was simply not funny.

This suggests that DNA hypomethylation was often a consequence of the initiation of expression rather than its precedent, although it might thereby reinforce expression.

Everything we're seeing now, had its precedent two years ago.