Sentence examples for of a precedent from inspiring English sources
"I'm hard pressed to think of a precedent for this," he added.
It's difficult to think of a precedent for a shift this fast and profound.
Corporate governance experts were hard-pressed to think of a precedent.
But it is unclear exactly what sort of a precedent it might set.
But the move sets less of a precedent than it might appear.
Analysts could not think of a precedent in which a domestic airline ever owned a refinery.
She was also, because of a precedent-defying seventeenth-century Virginia statute, Thomas Jefferson's property.
When the trustees became immersed recently in a battle over a proposed nightclub at 38 Gramercy Park North, the unthinkable prospect sparked the exploration of a precedent-setting punishment: if 38 Gramercy's board persisted in bringing a bar to the park, a direct affront to the 1831 Ruggles indenture, perhaps the building deserved to forfeit its park keys.
"Such a legal undertaking could simulate the effect of a precedent-setting legal ruling," said a Brussels-based lawyer close to the talks, adding that after making such a commitment in writing, Microsoft could be challenged on its motives for bundling other software into Windows.
"I think that many students feel that we have been caught in the middle of a precedent-setting argument between CUPE 3903 and the university, where neither side was willing to budge and both were behaving badly," one undergraduate student at York University told Next Wave.
That's the gist of a precedent-setting Quebec Superior Court decision that came down on July 10 following a Montreal business owner's legal battle against the province's business hours regulation.
