Sentence examples for particular precedent from inspiring English sources

I was too young and uninformed when I first read the comic to cite that particular precedent, but, growing up in working-class south Kansas City, Missouri, I couldn't miss the racial subtext.

The deal looked to potentially be the first step toward a permanent tie-up, based on a particular precedent.

In contrast to accounts of reframing that describe one big insight changing the design process we show how one particular precedent allows a series of attempts at reframing to take place in discussion.

If, say, the statute requires that a particular precedent fact must exist before the decision-maker may exercise the power conferred on it by the legislature, in the absence of the fact there can be no lawful exercise of the power.

Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.

Were you thinking of any particular fictional precedents when you were writing it?

He worries in particular about the precedent that is being established.

People who listened to the debate on the radio scored it for Nixon; but television viewers went for Kennedy, and he won the election.Gordon Brown is an excellent student of politics (the American kind in particular); and that precedent may partly explain why he has hesitated to agree to the sort of trial by television that Tricky Dick flunked.

Mansfield's judgment has been criticised as being unusually short-sighted because he failed to see that while his decision was correct for that particular case, the precedent it would set would create an unfair monopoly for the booksellers and publishers.

But it was clear that these particular First Amendment precedents were not the only ones in play this morning.

The tale reads like a primer on the rise of Chinese oligarchs, but it is so baroque in its particulars that its closest precedent is in fiction.