C. Vann Woodward suspects, more modestly than Rousseau, that he is doing something unique in "Thinking Back". "Lacking a precedent, it lacks a name as well," he says.
Apart from the political sensitivity of losing taxpayer money on Greece, Ms. Merkel sees three objections to a debt write-down: the legality, a lack of a precedent and the blow it would deal to investor confidence.
The Arctic's vulnerable environment, unpredictable climate and lack of a precedent on which to base cost assessments have led some environmental NGOs to argue that no compensation would be worth the risk of allowing drilling to take place in pristine offshore areas.
On the question of mootness after an offer of judgment, presiding Judge Steven Merryday lacked binding precedent from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
It is always possible that these developments could cause a polling misfire -- in either direction -- to a degree that lacks historical precedent, but with just hours remaining before the vote count begins, it would take just such a systematic error to change the verdict of the pre-election surveys.
Other cases lacked precedent.
In the case of Leonard Steven Grasz, nominated for an appeals court, the A.B.A.'s standing committee concluded that the candidate lacked respect for precedent and judicial procedure.
"What are some of the primary concerns/thoughts (as a representative of the EDC) with the Rigs to Reefs program in California?" According to Linda Krop, one of the primary concerns of the EDC regarding the R2R initiative is that the political and legal infrastructure currently in place in California lacks the precedent to properly manage an offshore oil and gas platform as an artificial reef.
Podemos – Spanish for "we can" – is a party less than two years old, but a combination of discontent and optimism means the party and its allies could win dozens of seats in the Spanish parliament, a political ascent lacking precedent in postwar western Europe.
However, for the methylation of aromatic rings, hydrogen abstraction from an sp carbon lacks precedent in enzymology.
