The Senate often makes precedents — there are more than 1,000 pages of them in the Senate procedure book — which define the rules, and they come and go.
Though WP29's word is not law, its views often set precedents upon which data regulators in each European country base their laws.
It is unclear how much precedent Medicare's new rules might have on private insurers, which often follow the agency's lead on paying for drugs.
Mr. Nissinen, the company's artistic director, draws on diverse "Nutcracker" precedents, often deriving obliquely from the 1940 Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo version.
American critics and musicologists, searching for precedents, often reach back to Amy Beach (1867-1944), a superb professional who created a large and sturdy catalogue of late-Romantic music that compares well with that of her contemporaries.
Its nine justices often set landmark precedents with their decisions, or at least clarify existing law, but typically the court now handles only 80 cases or less per term.
"They will readily cite you past precedent; often their records were better than ones I could access".
There are many examples of artists unconsciously treading on the toes of their forebears and it is perhaps comforting that what appear to be some of the more remarkable feats of imagination are often not without precedent but rather, like 4'33", a refinement of an idea, transformed beyond recognition by the artist's vision.
American military officers and diplomats, including Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, have repeatedly apologized over the incident, but Koreans, saying they needed to hear from Mr. Bush, often cited as precedent the apology issued by President Bill Clinton for the rape of an Okinawa schoolgirl by three United States marines in 1995.
Between the use of Glass at fashion weeks past and present and magazines' inclusion of the technology in photoshoots, the precedent (often kitschy but not always) is there.
