Sentence examples for precedent need from inspiring English sources

Yet the precedent need not be so troubling.

So the historical precedent need not apply.

A precedent need not be extended, however, if later courts regard its rationale as unpersuasive.

It is being translated into multiple languages and could be the precedent needed to bring about Europe-wide change and, given the interest and support from groups beyond the EU, potentially even further afield.

"A precedent needs to be set in Canada that this won't be taken lightly and it will be dealt with.

The precedent needed to extend religious practice rights to businesses may be coming around the corner, depending on the outcome of Tuesday's arguments.

New technology doesn't mean that law enforcement gets a bonanza; it means that precedents need to be reëxamined before they are uncritically applied — and that the N.S.A.'s advocates will have some real work to do.

"To establish a precedent, you need at least one person to be successful," Erwin said in a telephone interview.

For a city with a history of setting national examples on the social policy stage, it's just another effort to maintain its civic soul; for other world-class cities across the world with endangered artist populations, it may be the precedent they need.

Furthermore judicial precedents, the need for witnesses not to fear retaliatory litigation, available perjury remedies, and secrecy considerations for grand jury witnesses favored this result.

But if Romney aims to imitate those precedents, he needs to recognize what Clinton and Reagan accomplished in those hinge moments.