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Analysts could not think of a precedent in which a domestic airline ever owned a refinery.

Moreover, negotiating under these circumstances sets a dangerous precedent in which the nation can be held hostage to overturn laws that have been democratically settled.

But some insiders said the administration was nervous about setting a precedent in which officials and former officials may be summoned before a court outside the United States.

"If we set a precedent in which a dictator in another country can disrupt... a company's distribution chain or its products and, as a consequence, we start censoring ourselves, that's a problem," he said.

"If this decision carries it sets a terrible precedent, in which no priest or minister will ever feel comfortable offering help and advice to those whose souls are tortured," Haggis wrote.

In 1655, a woman with an African mother and an English father successfully sued for her freedom by relying on English precedent, in which children inherit status from their father.

And there are some precedents in which disaffected or mentally unstable people have exploded suicide bombs.

There are plenty of precedents in which violence threatened to derail Middle East peace accords.

They continued to argue that the Supreme Constitutional Court had no authority to dissolve Parliament, citing precedents in which the previous Parliament had rebuffed such judicial interventions.

The brief also outlined precedents in which courts have allowed publication of libelous material and let victims of the libel seek financial remedies after publication.

There are not really any recent precedents in which a candidate has led by something like 49 percent to 46 percent in the final polling average, as Mr. Obama does now in Ohio, and has wound up losing the state.