Sentence examples for precedent made from inspiring English sources

His lawyers argued that the Morrison precedent made it highly likely that he would win his appeal.

The Chinese, clearly hoping that this release would not encourage other asylum seekers or set a precedent, made no official announcement.

They feel a strong pull to the precedent made by their office".

Daft Punk had first broken big during the Nineties electronica boom, but the tour – a hallucinatory spectacle of pop stagecraft without precedent – made them several orders of magnitude more popular, transforming them from survivors of a bygone fad into unwitting pioneers of a dance-music craze that has since swallowed the pop world whole.

Islāmic architecture, borrowing from the Sāsānian precedent, makes great use of squinch forms (see pendentive).

The settlement itself, as a precedent, "makes a difference for me as an attorney, in knowing how to advise my clients," he said.

Because reporters often retain unauthorized defense documents, Drake's conviction would establish a legal precedent making it possible to prosecute journalists as spies.

This precedent makes the assumption that we do not all have an obligation to contribute to our society's infrastructure, of which public schools represent one of the most critical elements.

The Conservatives have begun to grasp that a combination of the opinion polls, the electoral system (loaded in Labour's favour) and electoral precedent make an overall majority in 2015 an uphill task.

But sheer inertia, and a feeling among many sovereign states that changes of boundary and status set a bad precedent, makes changes less likely.How far a populated patch of land qualifies as a country is ultimately a subjective question for politicians; it will never be settled by lawyers in a way that everybody accepts.

If successful, the measure could set a precedent making it much harder for Nestlé and other water-bottling companies to find new sources at a time when a long drought in the American west has triggered public anger at the very notion of private companies making money and creating extensive plastic bottle waste out of a badly needed resource.