Sentence examples for local precedents from inspiring English sources

Otherwise it's difficult to think of any local precedents for the HKS design.

There is a local precedent for educational centres to be named after prominent historical figures.

But there is a local precedent, one that few people remember today: the sit-ins and "occupations" that followed New York City's deep budget cuts in 1975 and 1976.

Judge Retchin said her court was bound by Supreme Court and local precedent and could not be guided by "a memorandum circulated by the attorney general of the United States".

Architectural studies have established that these buildings first were constructed at the end of the 15th century without previous local precedent.

(It is fortunate that Boston University, a crosstown academic and hockey rival, had abolished its football program more than a decade ago, thus providing a local precedent for the move).

Both ballets were loudly cheered, both had obvious merits, and there are plenty of local choreographic precedents, for each belongs to a well-established local genre.

The higher level, whether federal or local, takes precedent.

Yes, but do Foster designs respond to local architectural culture, precedent, history, sense of place?

But advocates sometimes fail to point out to people who might try to exercise these rights just how circumscribed they are by local laws and court precedents, how cops might have knowledge and rights empowering them to act in ways you aren't aware of, or how risky exercising these rights can be in practice.

Although no evidence has emerged, precedent gives local people reason to be suspicious.