Sentence examples for miserable precedent from inspiring English sources

Instead, they showed they could compromise only by buying one another off a miserable precedent indeed for the next two years.

PARIS — The election in France on Sunday won't decide its next president but will more likely offer a miserable precedent: a success for a "Rejection Front" that combines the bleak compatibility of the extreme left and right.

After MacLaine's character admits her love for Hepburn's, she hangs herself; this set a precedent for miserable endings in films addressing homosexuality.

In 2012, a subsequent byelection registered an even more miserable figure: 18%, a low without precedent since the second world war.

Or miserable.

Precedent first.

Absolutely miserable.

Bit miserable.

Pretty miserable".

'Very miserable.

"I'm miserable, just miserable.