Sentence examples for long precedents from inspiring English sources

There are long precedents for Russians collecting Western art.

Ms. Zambello concurred: "There's a long precedent for history-based operas.

That in itself isn't new, and it isn't unique: photographing cruelty has a long precedent in American life.

There is a long precedent in American culture, however, for treating the forms of alcohol differently, said Mr. Thompson of Syracuse.

The show includes, besides a sculpture in glass and steel of a kind that has a long precedent in Richter's art, eighteen innovative, one-off prints.

"And there's a long precedent for it, from recent writers who became artists, like Ne-Yo and John Legend, and going back to people like Carole King and Smokey Robinson".

It's a passion with long precedent.

Ensemble tests have a long precedent in biology and evolutionary biology, although none appear to have been prospectively organized.

There's a long precedent of the speeches failing to have much of an impact.

Other important legislation involved two measures to raise revenues for the Federal government: tariffs (a policy with long precedent), and a new Federal income tax.

There's a long precedent of teetotalism in Todos Santos, and in in 2008 a strict mayor banned hard alcohol entirely except on the day of the race.