In such a context precedent and analogy help to shore up the predictability of decisions whilst leaving room for courts to improve the law.
The Chase (1946) takes oneirism and fatalism as the basis for its fantastical narrative system, redolent of certain horror stories, but with little precedent in the context of a putatively realistic genre.
The largely unchallenged limitation of humanitarian space has set a bad precedent in a context where further complex emergencies can be expected.
The failure to challenge these limitations in this crisis has set a bad precedent in a context where further complex emergencies can be expected.
A soldier who had been too young to remember the attacks is sent to a war, forewarned, if not prepared, by the images he's seen, and comes back with his own stories to tell; a Supreme Court decision becomes precedent, in unexpected contexts; a teen-ager reads a novel and is drawn in the direction of one of the selves he could become.
Decisions require practical compromises that are highly dependent upon context, precedents, and a well-honed sense of the "possible" [ 27].
Hell, in one hour, around one small oval of track in east London, British athletes won three golds in such dizzying, dreamlike succession that all context and precedent disappeared off into the dark London sky.
What is the historical context or precedent with regard to this matter?
Wall texts of impeccable clarity analyze the relationships developed in this process: to immediate physical context, to historical precedent, among family members and corporate workers, between public and private space, between place and time.
This project required not only engagement in the present moment but an awareness of social context and historical precedent: There are so many things about our society that we accept and tolerate, things we've been handed that we've never considered criticizing.
