Sentence examples for precedent one from inspiring English sources

While several high courts in states with guidelines systems have likewise rejected constitutional challenges based on the Apprendi precedent, one court, the Supreme Court of Kansas, struck down its system, which the state then quickly modified.

It was an elegant royal precedent: one that might gracefully be followed.

There is a precedent: one of Bucharest's main concert halls was partly funded through a public offering in the 1880s.

Moreover, it sets a dangerous precedent, one that would allow a landlord to file a petition against any tenant the landlord felt had a "cluttered" apartment.

Perhaps only the visceral horror that lynching inspired gave Meeropol the necessary conviction to write a song with no precedent, one that required a new songwriting vocabulary.

The assistant director of the museum, Richard Klein, acknowledged that the sale is almost without precedent, one reason that it has caught the eye of the Connecticut attorney general, who said this week that he had some concerns.

There are relevant precedents one can cite, and they don't bolster the case for Bolt's success.

So people are starting to ask how long, on historical precedent, this one might be likely to last, and how fast might the snap-back be.

This was not quite setting a precedent - one of Queen Victoria's daughters chose cremation in 1939 - but was said to reflect the princess's longstanding wish.

Although Bran survives, crippled, his treatment sets a precedent: no one ever seems to be safe.

"We absolutely can't have that precedent," said one resident, Ruth Radow.