Sentence examples for just two precedents from inspiring English sources

Despite this virtual guarantee of authorial control, she set terms that had just two precedents in the magazine's annals: the poet Philip Larkin insisted that his interview be conducted by mail and Vladimir Nabokov handed a pre-written text to his hapless interviewer in a hotel lobby.

There is but one precedent for a strong prime minister and a weak head of state.

The institute's report also complained that the court is too respectful of its own precedents, observing disapprovingly that "the Supreme Court overturned precedents in just two percent of cases considered from 1954 to 2010".

I was unaware then of a precedent: just two years previously, the Channel Islands tax haven of Jersey had detained, deported, and ultimately banned a reporter from Newsweek magazine for investigating claims of illegal activity there.

George Romney's son, Mitt, plans to release just two, so his campaign's looking outside the family for precedent.

He had two precedents: [Prime Minister Menachem] Begin, in 1981.

We can think of at least two precedents.

There are at least two precedents for the latter interpretation [ 40, 41].

The precedent lasted just eighteen years.

An attorney representing the three smaller districts said she was concerned mainly about the pairing of the names and addresses and cited legal precedent of records of just one category being released instead of both.

But even if a mistrial is declared on most charges, Mr. Spade said, a conviction of Monsignor Lynn on just one of the endangerment counts would set an important precedent.