Sentence examples for precedent at from inspiring English sources

The court decision sets a precedent, at least from Europe.

Nor did the freshness of the precedent at issue, or how closely divided the justices were.

Gray sincerely hopes so as "it would set a precedent at least," he says.

The Buckley decision is not the only major precedent at risk this term.

"I wasn't hoping that something like that would set a precedent at all," Manuel said.

The rebuff is a remarkable breach of precedent at the traditionally conservative university.

Not that there wasn't already some precedent for at-home computing for the IBM 5150's arrival.

They said it also produced new and narrow definitions of international crimes long considered precedents at the tribunal.

I remarked that his hopes for a sweeping transformation of a national psyche had few historical precedents, at least under modern American stewardship.

You can pore over plans for Central Park and its precedents at the Morgan Library & Museum, in the exhibition "Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art and Landscape Design".

An unusually large number of the new cases put important precedents at risk, many in areas of the law the court has been rapidly revising since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.